Top UK techno pairing Forward Strategy Group provide an unashamedly full-on, fired-up exclusive DJ mix for the latest in the Clash mix series.
The mix comes as a salute to progressive techno-focused label Perc Trax (founded by UK techno boss Perc), which is shortly to release a compilation celebrating a decade of tough tunes. The album, ‘Slowly Exploding’, features new material from a cast of new blood and established Perc family, including one Forward Strategy Group.
Emerging in 2009, FSG have already made a huge impact on the crowded techno landscape, picking up praise and plenty of club airplay from scene stalwarts such as Marcel Dettmann, Peter Van Hoesen and Ben Sims. The dark, mechanical but ultimately danceable cuts on their debut full-length album, ‘Labour Division’, solidified the duo’s reputation as a force in modern techno, demonstrating that the forward-thinking approach suggested in their moniker was surely no accident.
Here’s FSG’s Al Matthews (better known in musical circles as Bleaching Agent) on the duo’s mix for Clash:
“This mix is a representation of the label’s history, influences and influence as we see it (which is inevitably going to be inaccurate). There’s some tracks from artists affiliated with the label over the years, some old ‘classics’ which have inspired at least Patrick and I in our work, and some new music arguably inspired by the label.”
Listen to it now.
Tracklisting:
Plastikman – Sickness
Sandman – Machines Like This
Avus – Fancy Arse
Underworld – Born Slippy
$990 – Gatito (Diegors & The Don Gata Negra remix)
Hugo Moya – Move
Forward Strategy Group – Code #02
Blake Baxter – Sexuality
C Mantle – Kindly Ones (Bleaching Agent remix)
Furfriend – Endless September
Patrick Walker – Entry Point
Manni Dee – Sister Nobody (Mønic remix)
Bintus – Warwick Castle
Chen Yi – Rug
Perc – BCG
Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened
Alfabet – Hell of Samba
Daniel Avery – Reception (Perc remix)
Vokhinne – Battery (Ben Sims remix)
Manse – Slacker
Bleaching Agent – Colo
Low Jack – Sweet Cheater
Blacknecks – Spudgun! Dave Hedgehog!
Bruce Gilbert – Children
Words: Tristan Parker
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‘Slowly Exploding’ is released on November 10th.
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