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Call Super b2b Objekt
Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 2022
A Call Super and Objekt back-to-back at Dekmantel is the sonic equivalent of watching two grandmasters play speed chess with grenades; we're just trying to keep up, dazzled by the sheer audacity of every move. The festival tent is packed with the kind of intense concentration usually reserved for library reading rooms, if libraries had earth-shaking subs. This set is a blistering tour through techno, breakbeat, and hardcore, with a wildly variable BPM averaging 150 but soaring much higher, and a harmonic tension often built around 12A and 3B. The energy is overwhelmingly concentrated in the mid-range (avg_mid 0.66), a relentless assault of distorted kicks, snapping snares, and twisted synth lines, while the low-end (avg_low 0.29) provides a punishing foundation.
Mixing is aggressive, precise, and full of jarring, brilliant contrasts. The tracklist is a weapon. Speedy J's 'Symmetry' is a monstrous, industrial-tinged opener. Mary Lake's 'Tessa Drive' is a hypnotic, driving techno cut.
The Prodigy's 'No Good (Start The Dance)' is deployed not as a novelty, but as a raw, terrifying peak-time weapon that absolutely demolishes the place. Groove Chronicles' '1999' is a moment of sublime UK garage warmth amidst the chaos. Radioactive Man's 'ave That' is pure, unadulterated electroclash energy. The journey begins with the mechanical grind of 'Symmetry,' explodes into chaos with 'No Good,' and concludes with the rough-and-ready garage swing of 'UK Garage - Waiting.' A tracklist that defines the cutting edge of modern club music.