The Berlin-based producer/DJ Max Dahlhaus returns with a brand new track and video for “Kurasuta,” off the upcoming Gooiland Elektro Various Artists compilation The Great In The Small. Originally producing under his pseudonym Max Farlane, with releases on labels like Beachcoma and Cinematique, in recent years the artist has switched back to his birth surname, Dahlhaus.
“Kurasuta” features the artist’s dark take on techno and is distinguished by a pummeling kick drum capable of delivering some seriously hard hitting damage. With an upper-register deathray sounding the alarm to begin, and body blows of bass drum framing the attack initially, Dahlhaus adds panicked arpeggiation into the mix, before the kick drum activates a muscular 4/4 beatdown. Brief reprieves from the pounding only serve to make the marauding kick drum’s return that much more violent, and when it’s coupled with a whiplash backbeat, and a clatter of percussive detail, the battering is full-on.
The video for the track is by Dahlhaus himself. Non-figurative and abstract, the visuals feature the twisting form of a double helix and various spiked balls moving thru black space. The artist interrupts these monochromatic shapes with beat activated bursts of pastel color, while his geometric forms often seem to pull apart into sheets of visual noise.
“Kurasuta” has already tracked in Resident Advisor‘s Top Ten for the month of May, and you can find the cut on the upcoming Gooiland Elektro Various Artists compilation The Great In The Small. The 4-track limited edition 12″ is set to be issued in a run of 200, and it finds Dahlhaus paired alongside the producers ?TRA, Vitriol, and Utroid.
