RLGN – Romantichrist EP [Lone Romantic, LR024]

Our Friday selection:
RLGN – Romantichrist EP [Lone Romantic, LR024]

RLGN joins forces with a series of collaborators on his new Romantichrist EP, on Maceo Plex’s Lone Romantic.

Russian innovator RLGN has a rough and ready techno sound that has come on Boysnoize Records, Private Persons and Don’t Recordings. He is part of the experimental wave of post-Soviet artists mixing up scruffy basement techno with acid-laced modern electronics. Here he works solo on two tracks as well as with frequent collaborator Locked Club – a fellow Russian electronic punk, DUMMFÖUND – a Middle Eastern melody master who does everything from disco edits to house, breaks and techno, and Stelmakh – a musician, pianist and composer from Belarus.

The solo cut ‘Olonkho’ opens up with heavily filtered and guttural vocalisations looped over bristling breakbeats. It’s a fizzing, caustic cut with snappy kicks and explosive hits that will blow up any dance floor. RLGN & Locked Club then join forces for ‘Betrunkener Hund’ which is a grizzly and frosty mid-tempo techno cut. The synths are twisted, the mood dystopian and the atmosphere edgy.

RLGN & DUMMFÖUND’s ‘Mahaut’ spins out on more busted bass and visceral drum programming with Middle Eastern vocal wails adding a sense of tension to the machine madness. RLGN & Stelmakh’s ‘Thriller’ is a distorted and brain-frying mix of rusty synths and yelling vocals over urgent, broken techno drums and blizzard-like pads. RLGN shuts down the EP with the second solo track ‘Rain In Kyoto’, a punchy electro-techno workout with busy synth modulations, lush bell melodies and turbocharged basslines.

These are five fierce and formidable techno fusions that take no prisoners. They are to be released on a special Bandcamp Friday, alongside a new Lone Romantic merchandise line.

Tracklist: RLGN – Romantichrist EP [Lone Romantic, LR024]

01. RLGN – Olonkho
02. RLGN & Locked Club – Betrunkener Hund
03. RLGN & DUMMFÖUND – Mahaut
04. RLGN & Stelmakh – Thriller
05. RLGN – Rain In Kyoto

Buy release: Digital
Listen on: YouTube

Connect with the artist:
📷 Instagram RLGN
👤 Facebook RLGN

Follow the label:
📷 Instagram Lone Romantic
👤 Facebook Lone Romantic

Discover more great music from Lone Romantic.