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One of the highlights from Headhunter's trilogy on Tempa was the 'Prototype' tune which gets the remix treatment from Modeselektor who up the tempo somewhat and go for a fully stomping club roller with mandatory massive bassline and sharp hi-hats. About mid-way through the b-line gets gnarly. All the elements of the original can clearly be identified but Modeselektor have really made it their own. This is a very good example of how the lines between dubstep and techno are being blurred. The production feels super chunky and and would say that this is one heavyweight tune that'll have your chest rattling at the dancehall. 'Sex At The Prom' is a new Headhunter track and it's slow and again darn heavy on the bottom end, but you probably guessed that, as it's a pre-requisite of the style I suppose. Ltd 12" on Tempa.* For the next 12" in the Tempa Ltd. series (Numbered, Limited Edition vinyl packaged in a deluxe foil-blocked sleeve) Apparat collaborators and Thom Yorke favourites Modeselektor reinterpret ’Prototype’, a choice cut from Headhunter’s debut LP ’Nomad’ (TempaCD014).
* Harnessing the driving bassline of the original, Modeselektor create a greater sense of pace and alertness, fusing Headhunter’s ethereal dubstep qualities with an altogether more Berlin techno feel.
* ’Sex At the Prom’, on the southside, underlines Headhunter’s ability for drawing from surrounding genres. Rigid bass stabs incessantly pound an otherwise sparse soundscape into submission - Mary Anne Hobbs has already blown-up one sound system with this track - before pausing as if to check it’s minimal counterpart still breathes. This respite is enough for the percussion to find its second wind and - aided by a warped synth line - the battle continues on more even terms, rounding out a heavily pulsating 12" that begs to be played out on a massive sound-system.
* Tracklist: A>> Prototype (Modeselektor’s Broken Handbrake Remix) B>> Sex At TheProm.
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