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The kick, if you can call it that, lands every four seconds like a demolition charge buried deep in wet concrete. At 70 BPM, this shouldn’t feel so violent, yet the energy is relentless, a blinding white-noise curtain draped over what might be a C-major centre but offers no comfort. Textures grind and shimmer, more geological event than song, pulling the room into a hypnotic, forward-thinking stasis that refuses to resolve.

I’d slot this after a brutal techno set has cleared the floor, or as the solitary opener in a pitch-black room where movement is optional and survival is preferred. It does not ask you to dance; it demands you lean in and let the pressure build. Ilian Tape’s corner of the underground has always housed records like this—functional only if you consider psychological restructuring a function.