K-Hand Intuition EP

New music from K-HAND, the First Lady of Detroit techno, is always a welcome sight, especially when it's on her own highly regarded Acacia label. Before diving fully into the new material, a remix of her familiar classic "Everybody" welcomes listeners to the Intuition EP. TomMy Largo takes it on, paying a lot of respect to the 1993 original in keeping much of its sharp edges intact, but he breathes new life into it using filters and chops to break up its predecessor's relentlessness and deliver something more dynamic, if only slightly, for the modern audience. "Intuition" follows, creating an infectious techno groove out of pulsating synth notes and an underlying bass sequence, both accented by a latin hand percussion swing, but with sounds teased out of machines. The rhythmic base is topped off with urgent and undulating synths of a modular feel as different effects crash in and out, ultimately climaxing in regal chords. "Calling" rounds things out in a menacing slab of techno. It starts with just a kick before layering on harder and harder elements as it builds with industrial scale distortion, delay, and reverb. Fitting right in with the rest of the release, it's a real run away train of sound.