blackasteroid: black acid

Bryan Black revises his Blackasteroid guise to present Black Acid: five tracks of lab-crafted techno, and a deeply groovy entry into the Electric Deluxe stable. From the EP's punchy title-track to the meticulous disorder surrounding "Hydrogen" and the palette of alien, mechanical sounds that proliferate throughout -- distinctly towards the EP's space-themed closers: "Pressure," "Lunar Landing," and "Lunar Escape" -- Black Acid is an inventive and intriguing record. Like some maverick alchemist, Bryan Black mixes drops of discordant, home-brewed noise with plenty of infectious, floor-ready rhythms.