Earwax – Upstairs Downstairs

Italian turbo talent Earwax brings his techno perspective to this new one from the Dolly TS series. ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ soon sweeps you up with its buoyant and bouncy techno drums and wavy cosmic synth lines. ‘Protection’ then gets more dark and heads down with a menacing low-end throb and increasingly edgy percussive through-line. There is comic tension and turbulence to ‘Key Of Life’ with its unsettling and eerie synths and banging drums, and last of all is ‘At The Door’, which races on with hints of original 90s techno rawness. Very useful, high-functioning techno.