batu: dekalb/collate

Beneath's Mistry label draws the best out of Batu in this quaking two-headed beast. With each release Batu seems to step further into his own sound, while also remaining true to a shared aesthetic and tempo with peers such as Beneath, Pinch, Lurka, and L.Sae on his home-brewed Timedance label. For this headstrong mission he comes with the noisy, technoid mutation of "Dakalb" up top, alloying radioactive subs with rusted snare-crack and floor-scanning sirens to murder the dance. "Collate" runs industrialized roto-toms and scooping bass with the ruddiest junglist swagger crowbarred into a 130-BPM template.