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This week's First Contact exclusive world premiere arrives via KRZM Records artist John Sense, who steps forward with the title track from his forthcoming Schlag Mich EP.
Across four tracks, John Sense carves out a distinctly acid-shaped corner of the European techno underground. However, it is the title track that leads the charge, and it is an absolute statement of intent.
Schlag Mich operates like a pressure valve. Punchy German vocal chops are slapped across a raw, driving rhythmic chassis as the track steadily winds the tension tighter through its first half.
Then, just as the heat builds to the mid-point, the track exhales; a breathy, weightless break surfaces, draped in lush string pads and further fragmented vocal cuts, offering a brief moment of suspension before a bristling acid line swaggers into frame and shunts the whole thing to an exhilarating conclusion. Schlag Mich is the kind of track that makes a room tilt on its axis.
The Schlag Mich EP drops soon on KRZM Records. Pre-order it on Beatport now, and enjoy our exclusive premiere up top.
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