Powerful Recordings launches headfirst into 2020 with a breathtaking follow up to the super limited ZOG 12' released at the tail end of last year. Label newcomer Kashpitzky makes his Powerful debut with two stunning exercises in taut programming and otherworldly ambience.
The EP kicks off with 'Undivided' - a broken beat behemoth that hangs above swells of ethereal pads. The smart percussion continuously evolves - skittish, fractured riddims greet gritty acid stabs, whilst deep plunges of bass and indecipherable voices add to the overall feeling that we're about to level up to the astral plane.
The inventive mindset continues on Your Secret Weakness, with microscopic fragments skipping around the edges like bursts of radio interference. The pulsing bass adds some subterranean heft, and the stretched out acid licks taint the waters with hallucinogenic properties. As the track corkscrews through moving walls of bass, gorgeous airy synths turn things cinematic before all the elements collide and send us through a rave wormhole.
The EP closes with a fierce, four-to-the-floor TRAXSHNN reinterpretation of Your Secret Weakness. Microcosms of distortion find themselves wrapped around a hollowed out kick before the savage beat unleashes some true moments of synth madness, with wild pitch slides that lurch forward and devour the track. The trip's turned - this is bat country now. The granular synths and spikes of bit crushed, who-knows-what, hurry around the track like cockroaches in the walls. The essence of the melody in the original finds its way through, before the held notes become stabs, and it all turns dark once again.
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