ELI BROWN レコード& CD

Review: Here comes Eli Brown, a Bristol-based techno and tech house producer who knows how to make his tracks sound absolutely massive. He's dropped on Toolroom, Of Unsound Mind, Moon Harbour, Relief and Repopulate Mars amongst many others, and now he's hit the big one, Drumcode. Brown's more than ready for Adam Beyer's label, bringing the high-pressure goods on the likes of 'Deep Down' and 'Nazareth', using that essential low-end boom and plenty of nervy acid up top, keeping the drums piling on hard and teasing the drama in his gargantuan productions. If you like it big, which you should do if you're checking Drumcode, then this EP has everything you need.

Review: Gavin Harris, otherwise known as Eli Brown, has been on the fast track to the premier league, big-budget stadium tech over the past five years, snapped up by Skream on Of Unsound Mind, Toolroom Records, Moon Harbour, Alan Fitzpatrick's We Are The Brave, Lee Foss' Repopulate Mars - the list goes on. After delivering a four-track EP to techno industrial mega complex Drumcode last year, he's back with a not-so-subtle reinterpretation of LFO's iconic bleep techno 'Freak', originally released in 2003 on Warp. If you're craving a smoothed out, reliably rolling version of Mark Bell's masterful, mind-twisting original, look no further.

Review: Adam Beyer's Drumcode is one of techno's most iconic outlets and it deals only in big room tackle for blowing minds. This sub-series no hits volume seven and welcomes new schoolers Marco Faraone, Eli Brown and Layton Giordani for a pair of punchy new cuts. 'Emergency' is a blast from the off with brain-frying synths and big, boisterous drums. On the flip, 'When I Push' is just as driving and driven, with rising synth tension and rolling snares over the solid kicks. Another winning slab from Drumcode, then.