Driving Techno

Chris Liebing and Speedy J recorded Metalism as Collabs 3000 in 2005, and it still sounds like two machines arguing. Mute's twentieth-anniversary pressing spreads all ten tracks across two records.

Regent takes the A side, Chontane the B — six tracks opening Mutual Rytm's Versus series, which puts two producers on one record and lets the contrast do the work.

Joseph Capriati and Indira Paganotto meet on her Artcore label and above — two extended tracks built for the hard, psychedelic end of the room.

Missing Channel and Apollo on the A, Mercury and PPC on the B. Four for KNTXT, cut in Brussels.

Three tracks held at a flat 135 — Doppler, RPM, and Formula on the flip.

Roar on the A-side, with How You Move and Rewind on the flip.

Five tracks, front to back — Rave On Time, There's No One Left To Trust, The World Inside, Common Era, and Wahr Ist Sie Dann to finish.

Chris Liebing's first full solo techno album, thirteen tracks across two records for his own CLR. The collaborations are the draw: Charlotte de Witte on Symphonie des Seins, Luke Slater on Double Split, Speedy J on Shaping Frequencies and The Advent on Subjective Immortality. Entangled Circuits came out of the...