Exium – Coded Fragments

Nheoma clocks up a quarter of a century of releases here with a potent new techno outing from Exum. The opener is a brilliantly constructed but of loopy techno madness where the while thing seems to be tumbling ever deeper down the rabbit hole. ‘Phase Modulation Nexus’ ups the ante with skittish broken beats and is wired up with intense synth arps and the dystopian aesthetic carries on through the squealing storm of ‘Metasonic’ and the driving power of ‘Mutation Machines’.