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Review: Credit 00 continues to be one of the most fascinating weirdniks from Dresden's Uncanny Valley, offering up cheeky electro with heaps of personality. On a return visit to Berlin label Mechatronica, he's not holding back a jot on the wild-style ideas. Just listen to 'Ratlife In The Sunshine', which creates a hybridised footwork-Miami bass style twist up of Roy Ayers' 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' with all the soul replaced by gnarliness. If that sounds like sacrilege, fear not - your boy Rat Life has the swerve to pull it off. The electro might be slightly more focused on the B-side, but these tracks still spit with non-conformist energy which is so very welcome when many stick to a very established genre formula.

Review: Credit 00 is back on the cult Pinkman label with more of his twisted electro slash new beat slash odd-ball club joints. 'New Tech Swing' is slow and tests you as it churns over, with prickly hits and slithering electro bass, while 'Die Welt' brings a more dark vibe that is haunting and star-gazing. 'Slaves Of War' is another track focussed don atmosphere with is slow, sludgy beats and dehumanised vocals. 'Jus Tee Naa' is a drunken rhythm with kicks and bass and acid twitches all piled up on top of one another and threatening to collapse at any time.

Review: The title of Alexander 'Credit 00' Dorn's latest release does him something of a disservice. While there is no doubt that the Uncanny Valley boss knows how to craft intoxicating rhythms, there is a lot more to his capabilities. "TRM" sees snappy drums and a tracky rhythm underpin swooning deep house synths, while on "Curse of the Medusa", an unnamed woman claims 'I gave you my heart' over hypnotic 90s techno filters. "Voodoo Soup", with its insistent kettle drums and dubbed out percussion, pushes the release towards the tool-style functionality, but as the bleep-heavy "Snake Charmer" demonstrates, it is clear that there is far more to this German producer than linear dance floor rhythms.

Review: Uncanny Valley offshoot Rat Life was launched earlier this year by Credit 00, ostensibly as a vehicle for rougher, more raw-sounding productions. Here the producer delivers his first solo EP for the imprint, dropping a pair of analogue sounding box jams that are both formidably fuzzy around the edges. Check, for example, the wild electronics, acid bleeps, old skool pianos and surging Chicago jack percussion on "Korg The Groove"; as the EP title suggests, it's a real basement anthem in waiting. Flipside "909ish" goes deeper into Credit 00's acid influences, with alien electronics and bubbling bass surfing a wave of authentic 909 drum machine percussion.

Review: Rusty, crusty low-fi techno from new sub-label of Uncanny Valley. "Session Two" has a nice 303 workout over hissing rhythms but wait til the screams come in. "Tom Tom" is the real highlight here; an insane tom drum work out that builds to a crescendo and then thee stabs come in and they're epic. On the flip they're "Transatlantic" which is totally distorted and overdriven acid techno belter that fans of L.I.E.S would be all over.

Review: Dresden label Uncanny Valley unveil the third of four compilation EPs with the sci-fi leanings of the distinctive artwork more than matched by the diverse musical input here. From the opening mighty bass drum thud of Metropia's "Night Train" and its subsequent expansion into far reaching washes of analogue synths this release drips quality! Credit 00's "Eiserne Lunge" follows on an inverted Drexciyan flex, with sci-fi stabs of laser bass teeing off with ripples of Martian melody crafted from the finest analogue gear. On the B Side, Tefan Lohse's "Fog Patches" arises from the bubbling sonic ether and quickly settles into a sprawling journey through the expanses of fluctuating acid rhythms whilst Projektname Unbekannt's "Dresden, Den 15 05 2005" ends on an introspective yet still highly melodic note. Highly Recommended!