28/06/2023
Juno Records write up for Head Front Panels EP
“John Heckle seems to have fully committed himself to the Head Front Panel project, leaving behind the acidic, Chicago-informed brilliance of his earlier work to explore a more focused strain of slamming techno. Fortunately, what Heckle carries with him into this arena is the intrinsic flair which has always made his music so stand-out, and as such Head Front Panel is the kind of hard techno material you can actually get interested in. It’s been a few years now since he last released anything on his own Head Front Panel label, but after a couple of seismic drops on Repetitive Rhythm Research he’s popped up on Decka and The Lady Machine’s Unterwegs Records.
You should have some idea of what to expect, but that doesn’t dilute the impact of a track like ‘Loom’, which packs a genuine funk into the beat around the stuttering kicks and shuffled hats, masking the drums in a shaking run of rhythmic noise and creating the magic by cutting a disembodied vocal sn**ch as though it was running on a parallel deck. That kind of hip-hop informed flex always injects some guts into a techno track.
‘Momentum’ and ‘Running Man’ meanwhile suit up for battle with industrial strength loops that nod to Surgeon and the kind of nightmarish machine braying you might have heard on a Downwards release. That leaves it to ‘Disc’ – the sharpest tool in the shed – to deliver a punchy sermon which is absolutely geared towards high-intensity DJ sets. Even in these trackier moments, it’s the inherent vibe which sets Heckle’s brand of techno apart. If you’ve got a thirst for the hard stuff, Head Front Panel can do you no wrong.”
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