Ancient Methods – Trias (Ancient Methods, Sonic Groove) Berlin / DE

Germany’s foremost practitioners of high-octane industrial techno: Ancient Methods.
Ancient Methods sent shockwaves through the dance music underground few years ago with their eye-
catchingly packaged EPs – First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Method. Their reputation was swiftly
cemented when they contributed a track to a split 12″ from experimental-leaning British label RSB, and
collaborated with Regis (Downwards/Sandwell District) as Ugandan Methods on Mat Oput – 1/2. Critics
call their music ultra heavy & industrial, noisy atmospheric techno killer cuts, mindblowing extreme funky
industrial techno with drone atmosphere.
The producers’ music itself recalls British Murder Boys, Jeff Mills, Surgeon, E Comm, Basic Channel at their
steeliest – all artists who make thunderous, full-frontal and at times wilfully distorted techno that is also
supremely funky and subtly layered, full of swing and dub-space.
This is techno that pines for and evokes the cavernous clubs, warehouses and repurposed industrial spaces
that nurtured the sound in the early 90s, a time when the music and surrounding culture had no sense of
its own future and the limitations that would come with it. Ancient Methods releases music that eschews
easy categorization, sitting comfortably outside any electronic music genres past and present.
Pitch black techno war funk. True electronic body music.

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