Troy Geary - Technical Remote Viewer

[BB017]
Troy Geary - "Technical Remote Viewer"
Released 2005

Brooklyn's Broklyn Beats label is best known for caustic, jarring breakcore releases, but on their latest 12", Troy Geary (aka DJ Slip, a veteran of labels like Drop Bass and Kanzleramt) provides a respite from the splattershot aesthetic with four tracks of spacious, aerated Techno. In contrast to the software-centric design of most contemporary minimal techno, Geary retains a tight, machinic feel,qs letting unadorned drum units do the talking. This is the sound of gearboxes communing in the hours before the rave has begun, left to their own devices in a cavernous hangar while the DJs and crew are off filling up on dinner. Rimshots and bell tones ring out like woodpeckers, beaming Morse code messages and trailing delay in their wake. The title track is an echo soaked distress signal for tom-tom and mouth harp, and it sounds more than a little like late 70's Human League or British Electronic Foundation. "Iris" intensifies the alienation with chattering bells and a rhythm that sounds sourced from a failing dot-matrix printer. On the B side, however, "Third Stage" and "Survive" add handclaps and rigid funk, resulting in two absolutely jacking tracks full of hypersyncopations and unexpected potholes.
--Philip Sherburne, The Wire, Issue 246, August 2004
   

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