Luci – Monday Off 19

Italian bringer of the sinister stuff Viels continues his run across labels including Mord, End Of Perception and Now Monday off with this exceptionally dark-atmospheric techno piece. ‘Luci’ and ‘Abbandono’ plunge us right into the belly of the beast as though we’d been swallowed whole, tunes slotting ninja-like into Mary Yuzovskaya’s vinyl-only world, with their grunting, abrasive jerks. ‘Ora’ shreds the B of all humanity, meanwhile, and ‘Silenzio Nascosto’ provides total metallic buzz – setting to truncheoning beats what might as well be a field recording of a swarm of mechanical wasps.