Mauro Picotto – Hong Kong (2002)
In the beginning of the new millennium, when the BPMs were a lot higher, I hunted down this record. It’s a collection of Mauro Picotto’s previously unreleased tunes – called The Others (fans of Lost here, anyone? ;). Most of the tracks aren’t that special, but one of them stands out. Hong Kong is an energetic techno track, which grows and grows – and after an effect-driven breakdown it drops to proper industrial-distorted-90s-techno. The drop is ridiculously cool – this track was definitely done with tongue-in-cheek.
Those days, I used this numerous times as an encore track because of the good melodic intro & outro. Would be a worth of a spin still today, wouldn’t it?
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