Josh, sounds like this is something you like...

"The Rave Is Back," announced a tune by Berlin's DIN-ST earlier this year, and indeed the sound of classic acid is making itself heard again. An even better indicator might be that Richie Hawtin returns this fall with Closer, his first Plastikman album in five years, and a full ten years since Sheet One. But Closer, which Hawtin completed in his Windsor, Ontario studio only weeks ago, isn't techno as we know it. Picking up where Consumed left off, the new album broods through droning paranoia, claustrophobic ambience, and nimble beat trickery. Still, the acidic blips of tunes like "Disconnect" and "I Don't Know" revive the mercurial flow of Plastikman's classic dancefloor anthems. Hawtin, who uses Final Scratch's digital DJ platform, says the methodology influenced the form of the recording, "The production was much less linear going back and forth, sampling bits and pieces, working on tracks for months and months." What's shocking, then, is how fluid the album feels, from its opening whispers to its closing two-minute chord. Closer is out October 21 on M-nus/Novamute. (PS)

Label: MUTE Liberation Technologies
Tracks: 10
Length: 75:06

01 Ask Yourself 08:45
02 Mind Encode 05:39
03 Lost 04:35
04 Disconnect 04:55
05 Slow Poke Twilight Zone Mix 07:48
06 Headcase 09:53
07 Ping Pong 09:28
08 Mind In Rewind 10:19
09 I No 03:40
10 I Don T Know 10:04

sounds appealing, but i'm not sure...Hawtin is cool, but he hasn't really impressed me lately, don't guess i would call him progressing through the time of different sounds...but sounds like i will get a copy...