The second release on Komisch is by Samuli Kemppi. With releases on labels like Ostgut, Time 2 Express and Prologue, the Finnish producer is one of the leading lights in the new wave of European techno. Samuli gets straight down to business on ‘Orbiter’. Based on chugging, insistent drums, the listener is led to a place where repetitive droning sounds, pitched up percussion and robotic bleeps dominate. If ever there was a soundtrack lose your mind to in a dark room, then ‘Orbiter’ is it. ‘Metal Space’ is more considered, but it’s no less effective. A prowling, menacing bass underpins panning, clicky percussion and gloomy, reverberated drums and, combined with dubby beats, it creates a subtle yet forceful techno track. Fachwerk boss Mike Dehnert has remixed ‘Metal Space’. Using textured chords, his version is deeper and contains a wall of abstract sounds, but the Berlin producer’s heavy, resonating bass and hissing percussion guarantee that it too is destined for use in blacked out basements.