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DHS & Bo Square
Lingering around San Francisco with Jack Dangers can be found videoproduction guru Ben Stokes and multi-instrumentalist/instructorextrordinaire Mike Powell. Together, the trio form Tino Corp., butseparately Stokes' and Powell's musical projects are respectively DHSand Bo Square. DHS follows up his last 12" (the House of God 10thanniversary) with the spacey psychically suggestive 'Mind Control' ep.Side 1 features three variations: unseparated upbeat dance tracks whichare more of a nod to mid-90s techno crossed with vintage spoken wordrecord samples on hypnosis. The thumping beat is rather thin for mytastes but would probably be intense on a super powered DJ system. Side2 is noted as both 45 and 33 rpm and features only two tracks, alsounseparated - "Telephone Sounds" which hijacks many analogue beeps,clicks and voices from the receiver and "Subliminible" where Stokesenlists a small arsenal of sampled analogue drum beats over anartificial robotic bassline. 
The first Bo Square release came out last year but shouldn't gounmentioned any longer. 'Outer Space Suite' is available on 12" and iscomprised of two faster-than-average techno future classics. Fans ofthe jazzier Meat Beat sound would appreciate the feel brought into themix, as guests Jack Dangers (on vcs3) and Marshall Allen (on sax).Powell, whose guitar and theremin skills coupled with a whole jazzaffinity flavors the first side on a delicious 9+ minute long threepart beat suite. The speed makes it almost considerable to be drum andbass but the track really stands apart from the crowd. "Numbers" on theb-side is comfortably slower and in an almost Kraftwerkian tribute iscolored with various numbers spoken in foreign languages. Both tracksare on the full-length debut from Bo Square, 'Sizing Things Up' butthere's just something magical about having the tunes on vinyl. Lookfor a review of the full-length soon.
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