If you've been raised on a diet of Basic Channel, Maurizio, Deep Chord, Carl Craig, Model 500 and so on, no doubt this album will have been top of your wishlist for the last decade. Gerard Hanson, aka Convextion, has allowed only four EP's baring his name to be given a release since his seminal debut twelve dropped on the Matrix label all the way back in 1996. That's a measly 11 tracks in ten years - and what tracks..some of the finest, most soulful Techno ever produced. To suddenly be given 8 new tracks from the guy could hardly be more exciting - coupled with the hightened activity over at Berlin's Hardwax and all its connections to the hallowed Basic Channel, plus the first rumblings of new material from Rod Modell's Deep Chord, 2006 may just end up being remembered as the year Techno went way deep again. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE
Tracklisting:
1 Equanimity (9:58)
2 Solum Ferrum (Extended Version) (8:15)
3 Sulphur Vent (9:44)
4 Astrum (7:06)
5 Premiata (7:25)
6 Interlude 1 (2:08)
7 Desolate Hub (8:13)
8 Interlude 2 (2:03)
9 Venea (11:38)
10 JMA020603 (7:32)
