Karenn live in the Boiler Room (by brtvofficial)
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2012 was the year I couldn’t get enough of Blawan, Pariah, WNCL et al- nevermind things Sandwell District-related, and the fact that Karenn shared the bill along with Surgeon and Regis….well. I’m just glad Boiler Room shares it with the rest of us.
Deffo making it onto the Year-end list: Fallow periods are necessary but when it comes to bass-heavy thump, I haven’t heard 4/4 sound so alive, fierce and excited about simply moving air in a long, long time.
Quietus blurb:
Karenn do NOT fuck around. This past Tuesday The Quietus went along to the Boiler Room for the kind of night out that normally only happens between the hours of three and six AM in some unforgiving, gurner-packed club. Fuelled by nothing stronger than the fine Polsih Tyskie lager, we were treated to a few hours of high-end and hard techno, kicked off by Regis and ended by Surgeon (when was the last time you heard Whitehouse out clubbing?) The meat in this sandwich was Blawan and Pariah’s Karenn project, using a heap of gear to play what was apparently only their sixth or seventh gig. Anyone who has loved Blawan’s killer ‘Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?’ 12” will know this is a man who loves a fierce, simple hook - this set, which you can now watch and listen to via the embed above, was like being the dismembered bits of a horse hanging in a French butchers during an earthquake - violent, cauterising and impossible to refuse the imperative to twitch and move. It’ll put the shitters up your Friday and no mistake. More on Karenn’s new EP here.
Surgeon - Humanity Test
Here’s a mix of some of the new tracks I’ve been enjoying recently. See if you can spot the odd one out.
TRACKLIST:Death Abyss - Seek Happiness In Victory, But Never In Peace (Inigo Kennedy remix) - MAK035
Woo York - Void (Truncate Remix) - MUX006
Samuli Kemppi - Hostile - KOMISCH012
Midland and Pariah - SHEWORKS03B
The Exaltics - Node#2 (Delta Funktionen Remix) - MA02
Midland and Pariah - SHEWORKS03A
Untold - Kane - HEK016V
The Fear Ratio - Dirty Paws - BP035
Kazuya Kawakami - Haunt - HHX08
Blawan - Untitled - HINF8674
Oris Jay - Said The Spider (Surgeon remix) - Texture Records
Roberto - Going Nowhere Fast - AFFIN114
Truncate - Diffraction (Jonas Kopp remix) - Modularz 8.1
Planetary Assault Systems - Function 4 (Lucy Remix 1) - Mote030
Roebin de Freitas - Doubt pt.1 - Unreleased
Grenier - Uncertain - TEC062
Phase - Binary Opposition (Inigo Kennedy Process) - TOKEN20RD
Surgeon - As You Breathe Here Now - Semantica 50
Svreca - Vilna (Orphx Remix) - Semantica33A
Lory D - Acidattak - NMBRS23
Randomer - Search It Out - Unreleased
OM Unit - Preshah - TECCD013
Diversion Group - Shirts And Skins - LINO22
Blawan - Why They Hide There Bodies Under My Garage - HINF8674
Midland - What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix) - AUS1238
Jacques Greene - Prism - 3024 019
Oneohtrix Point Never - Remember (Surgeon remix) - SFT015Scalpel
Blawan, Midland, Pariah, Om Unit, Untold.
Interview w/ Blawan and Pariah
Good interview. Some good points made about the term post-dubstep and vinyl records.
