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It’s been a busy couple of years for the producer behind the Shifted project. On top of an extremely well received album
for the Mote Evolver label, the producer has edged further out into the fringes of electronic music under a number
ofaliases, taking in noise/ambient variants as ‘Covered in Sand’, as well as more distorted, technofied productions under
the Alexander Lewis moniker, a sound described by the Blackest Ever Black label as “S-M Techno”.
His new album as Shifted, ‘Under a SIngle Banner’ finds the producer converging these strands into a lucid re-imagining
of Techno, starting off from the toughened, purist templates honed down by the likes of Sandwell District and
MarcelDettmann, and stretching out into more textured, sometimes noisy, often introverted and melancholly signatures.
It’s a perfect fit for Bed of Nails, a label that’s given a platform for the more direct dancefloor mutations of Dominick
Fernow’s own prodcutions as Vatican Shadow, Rainforeast Spiritual Enslavement and Christian Cosmos, as well as
familiarHospital Productions affiliates such as Kris Lapke under the ‘Bronze Age’ guise.
There’s a rich and earthy warmth to ‘Under a SIngle Banner’ that’s perhaps at odds with the purile fixation on all things
noisey at the fringes of Techno these days, but for the most part, the tension and momentum keeps the album definitively
aimed at the floor without ever resting on its laurels.