Four years of playing out around Vancouver, a slot on this summer's Bass Coast Festival bill, and a September date supporting Tommy Four Seven: Fizch has been keeping a full diary.

Records have gone through Elektrax Music, Physical Techno Recordings, Wicked Waves and Parallel Thoughts, and the VANTEK warehouse has become something close to a second home. Foundry Code shifts the arrangement slightly, being two tracks and the first thing FZH has ever put out. Labels only get one opening statement.

And what an opening statement we have. First track out of the smelting furnace is Oxidized, which develops in an unhurried fashion, much like the process of oxidization itself. Several breakdowns build the tension in the first half, before a relentless groove takes over for the second, punctuated by echoing vocal snippets.

Next up we have Steelworks, which we would say plays more on the theme of industry than the first outing, on account of the corrosive, distorted synths, clangs, crashes, and steel groaning. And, of course, that kick drum that insistently pulverises the bottom end with the mechanical precision of a hydraulic hammerhead.

An excellent first release for the label and we’re looking forward to hearing more. Foundry Code is out now. Grab it on Beatport.