STRAIGHT SHOOTING

TRACKLISTING


A. Planetary Assault Systems - Beam Rider s
B1. Planetary Assault Systems - Born Anchors
B2. Planetary Assault Syste ms - Humans Use Concrete

C. Planetary Assault Systems - Engage Now
D1. Planetary Assault Systems - Bear Bones
D2. Planetary Assault Systems - Give It Up





INFO


Fresh off much essential re- issues of his seminal debut album for Peacefrog, 'The Electric Funk Machine', an d the initially 2017-released 'The Light Years Reworks', which featured an incre dible cast of remixers, UK techno mastermind Luke Slater resurfaces as Planetary Assault Systems with a crisp double-package of his signature deep-rolling, hypn otic big-room churners. As its name suggests, 'Straight Shooting' takes no byway to get its point across.

Lifting off with the bleepy, outerspacey thrust of 'Beam Rider', Slater's new outing stings like a straight-o ut nasty shot of adrenaline right in the ticker. Going for the jugular with its ever impactful mix of pummeling kicks, bloodthirsty bass combers and frenzied el ectronics blinking like signals freshly emerged from a long drift across cold, h ostile wormholes, PAS further proves he navigates in a parallel dimension of his own. Although familiar in essence, the chassis of the tracks remains distinctiv ely unique with cuts like 'Born Anchors' and 'Engage Now' moving away from the c alibrated number category, whilst finely blurring the line between explosivenes s and self-discipline, which makes them perfect for near-peaktime moments of tra nsition in a set.

Proper muscular bangers are nevertheless the kern el of it all here, and sure to steer the crowd into ecstasy on automatic pilot. If 'Humans Use Concrete' blazes with the wild stomp of Slater's most incisive cl assics and 'Bear Bones' guides its listener into a trippy? ?excursion across hyperspace loops and alien inner territories, it's 'Give It Up ' that harnesses the storm with its playful mix of sliced-and-diced vox fragment s, rabid toms, skittish hats and freq-shifting synth whines sure to cut a path o f destruction into the club. If an extra-terrestrial invasion of planet Earth wa s on the agenda, no doubt Slater would be appointed soundtrack composer in chief . Deadly as it gets, 'Straight Shooting' holes it in one.