Altered Zones

Back in February, Dragan Otasevic from Brooklyn electro-pop outfit nihiti (which includes AZ contributor Arturo Darvishire) submitted a 2,000-word guest post on New York's Sandwell Distinct, a dark, minimal techno label that morphed into a dark, minimal techno "band" with last year's enigmatic Feed Forward 2xLP. Dragan's short history of the group traced its origins from the metal of Napalm Death to Birmingham's Downwards records and the founding of Sandwell Distict, by Function's David Sumner and Silent Servant's Juan Mendez, in the New York of the mid-'90s. It's been a couple months, but Dragan and nihiti associate The Surveyor thought they'd follow up with a sampler of sounds from Downwards, Sandwell District, and other purveyors of "pounding minimalist brutality" and industrial textures. All The Romans Have Not Yet Been Hung, named in honor of a Downwards release by Surgeon-Regis collab British Murder Boys (2005's All The Saints Have Been Hung), is the fifth in The Surveyor's series of mixes for "people who don't know that they like techno music yet." -- Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones
the surveyor: all the romans have not yet been hung Mix

Tracklist after the jump. nihiti's Other People's Memories is available now via lo bit landscapes, and a new EP, the unexpectedly acoustic Faced with Splendor, is due out in July. Subscribe to The Surveyor's mix series via Tumblr