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Remain 'Travel Series 1.1' (Meant Records)
French producer Remain delivers two slabs of thickly-set French electro on his own imprint, Meant Records, alongside Brazilian mainstay Click Box. ‘02’ is your archetypal French banger: stripped back to the point of minimalism, it’s just yearning to destroy dancefloors the world over. Its constituent parts – the hooky riffs, the fizzing percussion lines and stodgy kicks – are so well put together they’re worth the entry fee alone. But when they’re all combined, you’ve got a throbbing club weapon that should come with a health warning. For B-side ‘04’, Remain and Click Box channel their inner weirdos, as discombobulating vocals collide with sleazy synth lines and crisp drum lines. Swayzak also turns in a remix of ‘02’, before Danton Eeprom’s jangling re-rub of the B-side completes this stunning release.
8/10
