Mark Hawkins

Some might say that Hawtin’s M_nus imprint is a load of hype, but given the quality of some of the recent releases I’m inclined to disagree, and in fact, I’m thinking that there are some people grooving away to raw and grinding yet deep and funky techno grooves under the impression that it’s this new “Minimal” thing when actually it owes a lot more to the kind of techno that Dan Bell, Landstrumm, Vogel and many others were making back in ‘96.. anyway, here’s the latest offering, I seriously can’t wait to have the money spare to go out and buy all this stuff I’m writing about, because after being stuck in a desert of mediocre releases it seems that there is suddenly an oasis of stuff I really want to buy….

JPLS is Jeremy Jacobs from Indiana, USA. This release will probably be in a lot of knobjocky’s DJ charts just because it’s on Minus, but I’m quite digging the sounds here… if the releases continue in the same league of quality as this and the recent “False” record by matthew dear then Minus could prove the playerhaters wrong.. Proper techno back for 2008? lets hope so! check it:

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/288813-01.htm&highlight=minus

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