Various – 030 313

Tresor joins forces with Carhartt – a company that can trace its roots back to the Motor City – to celebrate techno’s two premier cities, Detroit and Berlin. The formula is devilishly simple: brand new cuts from artists based in one of the two cities, with stone-cold legends being joined by rising stars. There are headline-grabbing contributions from Juan Atkins as Model 500 (the warped, alien, dub-flecked and Cybotron-esque electrofunk of ‘I.D.L.E’) and DJ Stingray 313 (the industrial electro clank of ‘Dynamic Instability’), plus fine contributions from JakoJako (the early morning techno hypnotism of ‘Metal Goat’), AMX (the wonderfully hazy, deep and dubbed-out electro shuffle of ‘Your Body’) and Erik Jabari (the mind-mangling modular madness of ‘Screamore’).