3 Point Turn Explicit Hadshot (Germany)

After ruffling plenty of feathers with their 1999 debut, 3.Turn’s second album looks set to make another big impact. Think cut up grooves, a bit of metallic soundclash, and some seriously fat beats, and you’re just about there. Make No Mistake drops right in with a bizarro disco-techno fusion that’s psychedelic in the real sense of the word, with rising and falling all the way through, cheeky wah and nicely opposed instruments. You’ve barely room to catch your breath befopre Welcome To The Deep End kicks in, a sub-heavy, fat-ass roller with gnarled noises over the top that sound like two spaceships creaking and scratching up against each other, while Committed takes a step back before slowly moving closer and waving its hands about in front of your face. Around Zero takes things to a fierce, drugged-to-the-eyeballs extreme while Thriller provides a similarly dark and menacing vibe, twisted with a squeeze of humour to create a hypnotic groove. On The Edge pitches up at a more conventional level, taking the best X-Dream / Delta spices and adding them to the 3.Turn casserole (sorry), while the more fractured In & Out will appeal to the tecchnoid experimentalists. The more user-friendly Pere Lachaise is a well-flavoured, nicely balanced techno-hop odyssey, a nice breather before the minimal and screachy half-tune Train Wreck. Things only make sense with Green & Blue, a fully drum’n’bass-ified finale that takes the cool beats of Photek and balances them precariously over an Ed Rush wormhole bass. Explicit may not appeal to everybody, and if you listened to the whole album very loud while tripping very hard it might make you a bit more agitated than you were before. Lovely stuff.