Cardopusher - Manipulator (2015)

Cardopusher raves with a slow, muscle-burning intensity in his fourth album, 'Manipulator' - his first for Boysnoize Records.

After exploring electronic music's more extreme regions over the years, he arrives at a slinky, gritty New Beat sound via the RBMA finishing academy and releases for Hyperdub, Enchufada and his own Classicworks label.

'Manipulator' follows a latinate line between EBM, acid and slow, writhing techno to find a space somewhere between Silent Servant, 2AM/FM and Powell, most impressive in the elasticated, proto-darkcore breakbeats of 'Morning Traffic Dance', in the roiling entry of 'Exceptions', or the tightly wound EBM thrust of the title cut.