Reclaim Your City 556 | Measure Divide

Slashing its way across murky industrial scapes and haunting concrete and glass visions at unrelenting pace, the sound of Karachi-born, Toronto-based producer Fahad Ahmad alias Measure Divide summons all the assets of tormented hardware sorcery. Responsible for an array of quality efforts for the likes of Clergy and Nachtstrom Schallplatten over the years, Fahad has consistently laid down non-formulaic techno with a truly honest and singular approach. Defying the bland order of the day with productions that stretch from high-traction elephant grooves to more subtle psy-op manoeuvres with seamless ease, the Canadian jockey treats us to a mind-boggling fractal of homing big-room missiles, all set at shredding the dance floor into scraps of euphoric abandon.

 

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