Clashing chains, white-hot drum machines and er, 50 Cent. It’s JTRP’s FACT mix.
We first met the German duo of Jorge Takei and Robophil last year, with the release of their sublime cave rave anthem ‘Dungeons’. A New Talent piece followed, where we delved deeper into their dark, atmospheric take on European and UK house music.
Before you balk: this isn’t your usual cliched industrial house; JTRP make precision-tooled club weapons that swing wildly between immaculately mixed drums and synths and rickety progressions that seem like they could fall apart at any moment. It’s unpredictable, it’s raucous, and there’s nobody else that really sounds like them.
If there’s one thing that their mix sheds some light on, it’s the role that hip-hop plays in their music. When you hear their chopped-up darkside drums played next to Rod Lee and edited underneath 50 Cent, you realise where a lot of that unpredictability comes from.
