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Peaktime clubbing moments are built on anonymity. Those fragments of time
when you're blown away by music that you just know you will never, ever, be able
to identify.
System 23 make that music. Tracks that lay waste to the dancefloor because
everything is a hook. There's earcandy everywhere, but the overall effect is
still minimal, still classy. Yet it fulfils Dust Science's aim of creating
the ultimate techno knees up.
System 23 takes industrial's heritage of electronic inspiration and squashes
it into techno's blueprint. Influenced by like-minded industrial inheritors
Surgeon/Regis, and adding an overlay of Funk da Void and Beyer, they use hard
beats and savage filters to make music that is dumb, yet smart. Lovely.
Behind System 23 is a long history in music, going back to punk and
industrial days. His early influences include range from the Sex Pistols to
KraftWerk, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. System 23s music clearly
stacks up the Pistol's attitude against techno's sonic arsenal. Even better,
their deep knowledge of the industrial greats means they know just how
slammingly funky they could be, as anyone who saw the Cabs live can tell you.
It's this side of industrial that seeps through System 23's
grooves.
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