Artist: Perc & Barbosa
Title: 'One'
Label: Perc Trax
Perc is Ali Wells, and Perc Trax has been his techno label since 2004. Twenty two years on, it still carries his own records alongside everybody else's, with our most recent coverage from the label being our Shaun Moses ‘Nostalgia’ review and single of the week.
Barbosa is the Afghan-Canadian producer behind Heist Mode, the techno label he runs out of Toronto. The part of his working life that never shows up in a discography is the booking side of it. He set up Genova Agency with Decoder and Garrett Finn, who records as Rhyot, and it was Genova that developed Richie Hawtin's From Our Minds run of North American warehouse shows in 2023. Barbosa played on it as well.
'One' came out on 28 August 2026 and runs to two tracks. The release takes its name from the opener, and the track that follows is called 'Two'. Wells and Barbosa wrote and produced both of them together.
As you might expect, this is raw, loopy, propulsive techno from the pair.
