London's Powell works with opposites, in a way that's delightfully disconcerting. His tracks, on the surface, seem relatively uniform - but listen closer, or at punishing volume, and they teem with detail: wiry guitars, sinister yelps, synth figures that fizz like bubbles through sparkling water. Across two EPs in 2012 for his own Diagonal label and one for Death Of Rave in 2013, he has established himself as one of the UK's most unique electronic musicians. Powell's tracks flirt with the dynamics and structures of club music while joyfully subverting them, throwing acoustic sound sources or disembodied voices into the mix to play havoc with the groove. Indeed, the three tracks on his new Fizz EP for Liberations Technologies are some of the most mischevious club-rooted music you're likely to hear all year. They nod obliquely to Powell's history with jungle and early drum & bass - compared to the techno-esque momentum of his earlier releases, here he's almost subliminally ratcheted up the tempo, turning these tracks into blistering forward barrages of percussion and dusty bass. On 'Fizz', sub-bass throbs like a motorbike engine, paired with his distinctive guitar scribbles. 'Wharton Tiers On Drums' sets panicked vocal cut-ups to a rapid motorik chug. And the sketchlike rhythmic pummelling of 'Beats'
plays almost like a DJ tool, a reminder that even this strangest and most angular of music can lay waste to dancefloors. More

Bandshell makes music akin to impenetrably complex puzzles. With a rhythmically intricate style both coarse & strikingly individual his curious constructions have seemingly little regard for the constraints of the dance floor. The second track on the EP, ‘Perc,’ is featured on Ben UFO’s Fabriclive 67. More

Mute welcomes a brand new era with the birth of their latest electronic associate label, Liberation Technologies. Citing reference from Mute?s original and continuing statement of intent, the label exists to give space to and encourage artists to experiment and challenge themselves, anonymously if they choose. The first release on Liberation Technologies is the ?Spring EP? by King Felix, a producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan who has also released music as Laurel Halo. The Spring EP draws from a melee of influences, sharply carving out its own sonic palette. Driving and dramatic, it?s an uplifting theme-and-variation exercise on oscillation and forward motion. More