There’s an article over at Boomkat basically bemoaning how sad poor little Axel Bartsch must be to have to occupy the flip of a Speicher A-side of this absolute magnitude, and frankly all I can do is echo that sentiment. I have been in love with Mathew Jonson for many, many moons (I’ll never forgive Trixie’s beloved Kazell for passing up a chance to play “Marionette” one night when I desperately needed it, but that’s neither here nor there), but this is by far the most massive piece of brain-wrecking, face-melting tech stomp he’s ever unleashed. And, true to form, it’s slapped on the reliable Kompakt Speicher brand, which freaking screams “it does not matter, this will change your life”. Oh, here it does:
Mathew Jonson & The Mole: Dirt Road & A Boat From Soundwave
I’m not enabling streaming on this one because I won’t suffer fools here: click and download right FREAKING now, and make this both the first and last song you play the next time you DJ out (HACKS). This is an utter monster, as it grows and swells from a moody, strings-and-offkey vocal stabs piece of goth-tech into a nearly ambient breakdown…and then, halfway through, when you think it’s done…it EXPLODES. You did not and you can not see the bass attack coming, and when this track gets halfway through it, like all good pop, begins to eat itself and everything around it.
This is inhumane, this is massive, this is a real tune the way we in the dance music industry used to say it: a smile plastered from ear to ear and a cry of “CHOOOOON”. Rock this now, rock this hard, rock this for keeps, because Mathew Jonson has re-invented hard and heavy intelligent techno again.
Awesome write up man. hahaha