- Last year, London's Casper Clark shifted his BleeD project from a party to a label, releasing his debut EP as Volte-Face. Most of BleeD's catalog comes from Clark's alias, where he offers up textured techno that seems to grow more massive with each release. From his first record to this third, You Bury Me, the producer has picked up a darker sound pool and a much heavier sense of atmosphere, making these new tracks some of his most epic work yet.
The mood here is especially anxious, filled with slow builds and crawling textures. Clark does this best on "Shirime," a patient and droning techno cut whose distant bell toll gives the whole thing an air of finality. IORI's remix of the tune plays up the paranoid details—shakers, ringing pads, a mutant squelch—but removes the weight from its oppressive drums. On the title track, an uneasy drone is slowly nudged awake, while blips and white noise slip into the tension. "Dead Cat On The Dinner Table" is the most unusual of the bunch, with its combination of creaking, discordant synths and a looped ethereal vocal. However strange it is the surface, like all of Clark's these tracks, a steadfast techno kick is still at the core. Any one of them would provide that peak lost moment on the dance floor.
TracklistA1 Shirime
A2 Shirime (IORI Remix)
B1 You Bury Me
B2 Dead Cat On The Dinner Table