There is something elusive at the centre of FANPRO, as if Myles Sergé has left a door slightly ajar and invited others to peer inside. The Michigan producer has long treated his (MS) imprint as a private laboratory, yet this new package feels less like an exhibition and more like a collection of coded messages passed between trusted accomplices. Across seven versions, the original track becomes a shifting object, glimpsed from different angles but never fully revealed.
The opening cut moves with a restrained tension: a raw synth slices through thick air while bass murmurs beneath like distant machinery. It is functional, certainly, but it carries an undertow that hints at hidden architecture. Berlin’s Toxido Mask answers with a remix that stretches the room into echoing corridors, its dub-tinged pulse suggesting lights flickering at the end of a long tunnel.
Ackermann‘s interpretation feels like a memory of a club that may or may not have existed, jackin’ rhythms circling around haunted stabs and brittle claps. Myk Derill pushes further into the shadows, muting the kick and letting delayed tones drift like signals from another frequency. The alternate versions deepen the riddle: “v3” breathes as an ambient prelude, “The Classic Version” smiles with deceptive familiarity, and “v4” closes the set with a strange collage of jagged synths and dislocated piano.
Rather than offering answers, FANPRO seems content to ask questions. Sergé and his collaborators sketch a map of half-seen spaces where techno functions as both compass and veil, guiding the listener through a landscape that remains tantalisingly unknown. DJ fans of this top collection include Marcel Dettmann, Laurent Garnier, Ben Sims, The Advent, Florian Meindl, Developer, Brendon Moeller, and many more.
- Reviewed by Jack! Who? for deathtechno.com
