Leech2 vinyl

Following the "working man's techno" of Young Male, the second release on the fledgling New York label White Material, comes from the equally unheralded DJ Richard, and its equally as good as the label's debut, if not better. "Leech 2" combines a Baltimore club style vocal sample with a steely NYC house backbone and rumbling analogue bass, all flipped on its head at the mid point by an inbuilt rewind and a sonorous melody that sounds like creaky pipes, something expanded upon in the ambient industrial tones of "Stone Worx". On the flip "M.D.W.B" offers something completely different; the flanged chord strums that open the track suggest a delicacy that soon gives way to an imposing analogue saw tooth and suspended strings, while "Shade Of '77" pairs cavernous ghetto style 808 rhythms and a looping vocal sample with a soundscape that is pure sci-fi dystopianism. Put simply we haven't heard a release this exciting in quite some time.