Reality Check – Blueprint 88

Three decades deep, Mark Broom pinches himself hard with ‘Reality Check’ for Blueprint, affirming his suspicion that he is indeed the real deal. The Fear Ratio co-collaborator and techno tremorer is a classic head of the cross-national techno sound, expertise flaunted without needing saying: ‘M-Tallic’ with its aggressive chords made to sound like the chomps of an awoken beast, ‘HYB1’ and ‘HYB2’ contrasting hard with pocket calculative crunch – 909s notably on the on-beat, not the off.