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True to form, Souvenir are back with a snappy summertime release perfectly hinged & ready for sweeping the dancefloors. Souvenir 036 Various Artists features Lewis Boardman & Maher Daniel blending their sounds, and converging on this EP for some magnificent effects. The A side starts out with Daniel - he is a new, but solid name amongst the techno-gambit, having released on labels such as Get Physical & Bedrock, as well as on Souvenir. While his remix workings of “Rumblefish” earned him a 2 1/2 month long-spot as number one on the techno charts. With “Here and Now” with dark, driving techno that sounds like its been made inside of a blazing house-fire. Burning & singed, the the layers fall heavy upon one another - with a penetrating dancefloor deep-ness to the bass. Next up, “Icaros” on the inside A track…Spins a dark & deep nighttime soundscape, deep into the depths of a jungle somewhere. A distant & hollow vocal of a tribesman hums hauntingly in the distance, with a severe & driving bassline to make you run like a scared little raver deep into the jungle. On the B side, Boardman takes over, one of the UK’s newest talents - recently remixing for Nina Kraviz & Yousef - with “Tranquilizer,” on B2 is quite a minimal retreat…with some intergalactic space-fight sounds thrown into the mix, alongside the rolling bass, and chug-chugging. B2 enters the title track, “The Broken is Beautiful.” A nice, chugging bass-line meets a ethereal chopped up vocal, carefully flowing in & out of the bass-line….to meet up strong midway thru the breakdown.