Bleep

Dominick Fernow’s Bed of Nails imprint presents Shifted’s second album, following the ‘Crossed Paths’, released on Mote-Evolver. The sparseness and attention to detail that characterised his debut is still to be enjoyed throughout the 9 tracks which comprise ‘Under a Single Banner’, but there is a rougher, harsher edge to the sound quality which brings the producer’s intentions across even more persuasively. ‘Chrome, Canopy & Bursting Heart’ is a slice of precise, sandpaper techno, while ‘Contract 0’ allows crisp percussion to take the fore, with a background of dripping glitch threatening to spill over into the stability of the pulse at any moment. ‘Suspended Inside’ pulls all the tricks at once, with a re-iterating hi-hat and sinister bit-crushed cowbells adding up to something much more terrifying than the sum of its parts.