D’Marc Cantu – Physical State

D’Marc Cantu has long been a standard bearer for hardware revivalism, having first released his drum machine-heavy blends of vintage jack and starlight rave revivalism on Creme Organization back in 2007. Here, he pops up on Ansatz with a superbly varied trip into warehouse-friendly territory. There are a couple of rush-inducing doses of strobelight-enhanced rave revivalism territory (the frankly nasty «Heater» and brilliantly wide-eyed «Surface Dweller», which sounds like it’s been ripped from pirate radio sometime around 1992), a Larry Heard-ish foray into tactile analogue deep house (the brilliant «Grey») and a thrillingly industrial-sounding fusion of jackin’ beats and clanking bleep melodies («Box Sound Scape»).