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PLZ 010EP
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With Drekerd -- Testset's three-track sophomore release for PLZ Make it Ruins -- they dig a little deeper into the groove, exploring familiar sonic territory to the well-tempered chaos of debut release Dirge Grid EP (PLZ 005EP, 2015), now with a calibrated urgency that oscillates insistently from deep meaningful space, to the shallowest depths of "Drek". Testset's palette is far-reaching in its enquiry: escalating tessellations disrupt and dissolve; specks and flecks fluctuate in focus; tropes suggest and imply distant dance-music half-memories, both immersive and playful; all with an attention to micro-rhythmic detail that implores physical movement.
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12"
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PLZ 005EP
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Testset imagines a new music which admittedly harks to the rave days and refuses influence from the fickle and vacuous factions of daily internet minutiae. However, the rhythms are reanimated - those pixelated syncopations and tacky 16-bit pads have been feverishly fermenting - and the result is set as a test to others. Testset's sonic fingerprint foregrounds intertwined micro-rhythmic clutter, honed, chiselled, stirred and distilled until they reveal a uniquely independent, tessellating brew - drawing magpie-like pop-cultural tropes from all and sundry. The Testset sound is euphoric sonic pattern-making at its most exquisite - multi-layered, playful and immersive.
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