Bleep

Shack’s back! The enigmatic producer returns with two tunes on his own Woe To The Septic Heart! imprint. It goes without saying that what we have here is club music of eerie deepness - that’s standard Shackleton procedure at this point. The interesting thing about both ‘Furnace Of Guts’ and ‘Wakefulness And Obsession’ is how they appear to be tracks that take shape in real time. Both tunes begin without form. ‘Furnace’ turns over a sample of an Irish folk song in a way that could be an oblique nod to Bullion while the B-side is a droning sound-soup. As the tunes progress their grooves slowly coalesce from a mish-mash of synthetic tuned percussion, dubby bass and lackadaisical drums. It’s almost as if Shackleton is giving us his own twisted take on the Principe sound here. Both numbers are, of course, hypnotically powerful.