Rave Echoes [LP]

Shed makes his first appearance on Dekmantel with Rave Echoes - a supple, mesmerizing album of angular techno caught between the heat of peak time and the time-blurred hours after the club. A combination of dreamlike atmospherics and rugged propulsion takes on many forms across the album. It's submerged and restrained on 'Loot 25', speckled with sharply sliced breaks on 'Everybody' and scattered across a sparse, steppy soundscape on 'Rave Predator'. Emotive, swooning strings collide with tough, squashed breakstep drums on 'Double Scoop' and 'Taking You Home' thrusts with urgency and rave romanticism in equal measure. Wielding his signature blend of UK-school soundsystem pressure and Berlin-school techno momentum with poise and purpose, on "Rave Echoes" Shed offers a perfect impression of those wild, indescribable sensory overloads that leave their mark on anyone devoted to the dancefloor.