PSI49NET 104 vinyl

You've got to admire Anthony Rother, a DJ and producer who has been spearheading the German electro movement since the late 1990s. In all that time he's kept up a formidable work rate, releasing must-have albums and singles at a steady rate. Here he offers up his third EP of the year, a tasty four-tracker packed full of punchy machine drums and sci-fi sounds. Our pick of the bunch is sleazy, mind-altering opener "Hyperbolic", where thrusting TB-303 motifs and throbbing acid bass help to create a suitably twisted electro floor-rocker. There's plenty to set the pulse racing elsewhere though, from the Kraftwerk-in-space flex of "3L3C7ro Don't Stop", to the sustained minor key motifs, doom-laden atmosphere, rolling electro rhythms and spiraling electronic intensity of closer "Bilocation".