out for a while: Amotik | Janice – XVII [Reclaim Your City]

Artist:
Amotik | Janice

Title:
XVII

Label:
Reclaim Your City

Cat#:
RYCL017

Release Date:
29th September 2022

Format:
vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Amotik
Narangi

A2.
Amotik
Hara

B1.
Janice
Mass Formation Hypnosis

B2.
Janice
Names And Excuses

Press Info:
True to AMOTIK’s minutely balanced, well-integrated blends of punishing kick drums and sunken harmonics, metronomic destroyer “Narangi” swings the pendulum sharp and clean, from deep down a thick sludge of reverb-soaked, FX-topped percussive armada to bleeps n’ bloops barrage fire, whereas quake-inducing tides of 909 thunder hail down upon the dance floor with unrelenting frenzy. The dusty bone-bruiser “Hara” picks up the torch and it’s in no calmer mood. A slowed-down, breaks-loaded churner, this one relies on a fine engineering of lo-freq moves and pure hardware-processed filth to establish a murky motel, cinematic narrative of sorts.

Up with the fracturing wares, here’s Janice rocking the flip upside down with the aptly-titled “Mass Formation Hypnosis”. Doing what’s written on the tin, the faceless producer rushes us headfirst into the boiler for a thorough, unfaltering brainwash. Smelling of leather, grease and coal, this one’s bristling with a delectably rugged palette of unambiguous electronics: an ultimate shelling of chest-rattling drum work, in-your-face bass uppercuts, trumpeting stabs and menacingly altered vox. The final salvo, “Names and Excuses”, tops it all off on an ominously droney tip, flinging us right away into the frothing mouth of a deadly machine giant, hurtling and tumbling down mazy bowels of washed-out ambient techno via rhyzomatic gutters of brooding abstract motifs and no-frills heavyweight pound. Hectic.

Also available as 180+ gram quality black vinyl from Clone, Deejay and Juno, among others, “RYCL.017” comes adorned with a duly outstanding frame to shine, pleasing the eye and the ears in equal measure. Limited edition pressing, once they’re gone, they’re gone.

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