It’s difficult to slip away from any release where Scan 7 is involved. Especially when the Detroit collective is seriously in the business. Last year, they launched own imprint SCAN with an update of the 2012 “Resistance”, including a striking remix by Underground Resistance. For the label’s second instalment, they have compiled a stunning six-tracker of Detroit sounds, where versatility is the key.
Scan 7 themselves open with fiery “Detroit Built The First Techno Museum”. Sporting sturdy bass and rave whistles, they stand for techno’s true values on this floor killer. “Sxeranade” by Inohs Sivad and featuring Charles Prophet Jr., is from wholly different world – soulful deep house with caressing sax passages and warm vocals. House repertoire rolls on with “Bounce Glxtch” by eMICee, a sonic narration which prefers mysterious paths, the compass stuck to the direction of ‘deep Detroit’.
Then the luminaries of Aux 88 open the B-side, working in powerful techno-ghetto-bass cut “This Is What You Want” with Demian Monet as the MC. Scan 7 show a great command of infectious electro in jittery and acid-stung “I Am From Detroit (Dre Brown Remix)”. For the end, “Devil His Due” by The Man With No Name (not to be mixed up with Goa act with similar name) drops a fabulous showcase of force and talent. Standing next to the tribe of interstellar fugitives, the artist delivers an dark and bass-heavy anthem from the empire of machines.
Speaking of Scan 7, the year 2024 is seeing two vital reissues of their work. Tresor will release the 1996 album “Dark Territory” and a remastered twelve of “Black Moon Rising” came out on Underground Resistance.
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