Andres Andreas "Frozen Acid" Iron Oxide 07
Iron Oxide continues on its mission to bring good hard techno to the world, this time showing that acid techno doesn't have to mean ‘Stay up forever', London squat parties, or 160bpm! Keeping the tempo down to a very reasonable (but still energetic) level, Andres Andreas (who recently went head-to-head with Hardfloor on their ‘Versus Series 2' release) bring a slightly old-school sounding, but nevertheless effective, hard acid jam. Raw production and tough drum programming (and of course a suitably tweaked 303 line) ensure the correct dancefloor response with this one! Regis meanwhile treads the road less travelled with a remix that incorporates bleeding-edge production techniques with his own uniquely bleak industrial-esque touches to create a whirring and crunching interpretation that will inevitably find a home with many of today's adventurous techno cognoscenti . Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that not all party music is about smiling…this in one for that ‘heads down until the smoke clears' moment…
