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Split EP of dark metallic hard-fun from the Human Shield mixing funnel. MANASYt leaves his manners at home and takes the A side by force with two solid cuts of pure industrial horror: ‘Wrist Sewing’ leaves little to the imagination whilst ‘Vibro’ speeds up the synth suspense until we’re trapped in what turns out to be a really quite nice world of oppressive machinery and automatic robotic violence.

Overworked and underpaid North Wales bedroom musician Cestrian (Bunker/Monox) softens the blow just a bit on the reverse with his ‘Hearse’, giving us the perfect funeral and then driving off with some dead waves and lots of old bass into the near distance. The stately anti-funk of ‘Rizzla Teeth’ brings us to a kind of awkward, imposed and yet rewarding conclusion. Classic tunneling windy driving music that makes you reach into the void.