pete swanson - pro style (12inch vinyl lp)

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Operating at absolutely the peak of his powers, "Pro Style" finds Pete Swanson further developing the highly detailed, totally f**kd techno stylings that characterized his superb "Man with Potential" longplayer. The titular cut springs to life with distorted polyrhythms and truly destroyed drum programming. The "VIP Mix" of the track that follows operates in a slightly more stripped down manner, with pulsing white noise and a throbbing bass drum. "Do You Like Students?" closes the record on a note of wonder, with rising, ethereal tones coiling around barely-there rhythms. Truly beautiful stuff here. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia

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Since upsetting the techno multiverse with Man With Potential, ex-Yellow Swan Pete Swanson has tirelessly continued his exploration of the form, quickly breaking it down and molding it in his image. Pro Style is the result of those experiments, and finds Swanson at his most explosive, with his archetypal searing synthesizer blasts directed over warehouse kicks worthy of the Downwards catalog. This is possibly Swanson's most technoid investigation to date, but any "mainstream" form is peppered with more than enough failure to put a smile on the faces of unconvinced Yellow Swans fans. Pro Style is far from Berlin's precise minimalism, instead taking a raw, hands-on direction that we haven't heard in the genre for many years. Whether you're in the club or in the basement, Swanson's pounding kicks and (surprisingly) booming basses should keep the apocalypse at bay, for now at least. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.