Gaetek - The Outmove E.P. FLAC

Sixteen years ago this was "techno". Relentless loops, big synth blasts, a fast tempo and a kinetic energy that practically forces the listener to jump around. Outmove of course has that honking stab, Full Logic has emphasis on the kick - a brasher stab - and comes across a little Beltram-esque, Undecided is immensely propulsive with some dark higher-note synth stabs, and Negative has some unsettling ghostly vocal sounds atop another rolling rhythm. There was a lot of techno like this going around in the late 90s through to the mid-00s. It's all minimalistic composition, of course, this is techno. But the kind of propulsive, pulsating energy present in such techno has disappeared, replaced by "mnml" these days. Rediscover what techno was and still should be and put this tasty EP on your turntable again!

Outmove is such a great track, just keeps rolling on and on... constant driving techno with electronic beeps and cascading snares. Also contains very nice buildups and nice use of filters and effects.

Full Logic jumps on a slightly different tip giving a more tech-house feel, with a nice drummy basslines and great filtered synth stabs, and never failing to be funky.

Undecided has really nice progressive synth patterns, this track really takes you on a ride, great beat patterns and nice use of snare pattern, once again playing with eq nicely and using a few effects to make more depth in the buildups.

Negative really grabbed my attention when I first listened to this... It is actually a breakbeat track implementing techno and electro. This track really gets you going.

Another great release from Gaetano Pariso