Life Performance

Techno, the way Peter Van Hoesen does it, falls close to the style's zero-degree definition, the kind of description one might overhear at a party. It's meticulous, banging, stripped-down machine music that remains just melodic enough to keep it from being totally abstract, and is altogether too savvy to melt into the tech-house fallow zone. Van Hoesen finds an easy fulcrum point between Robert Hood's soulful, severe loops and the sheer aggro bum rush that once characterized Low C...

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