Edge Of Everything

Berlin-based British artist Paula Temple makes some of the most physical techno around. The twelve tracks on Edge Of Everything are immersive; you feel like your head’s being squeezed, pleasurably but not necessarily 100% consensually. There’s almost no melody as such, just wave after wave of tuned distortion, and bass like an undersea earthquake. “Futures Betrayed” sounds like a thunderstorm set to a beat, and the paired versions of “Joshua and Goliath” (the “Techno Version” is followed immediately by the “Slow Version” — same melody, minus the rhythm) feel like rocketing into space, then drifting slowly to the surface of an uncharted moon.