This week local underground electronic label Clear released Counter-Factuals, a brooding techno 12-inch from producer Jason Letkiewicz, better known as Steve Summers. Summers made his name pumping out subterranean techno in Brooklyn, but he now lives in Chicago—where he’s collaborating with folks who understand his dark streak. He joined Melvin “Traxx” Oliphant III and Beau Wanzer in Mutant Beat Dance, turning the duo into a trio in time for their sprawling, self-titled 2018 debut. Counter-Factuals is Letkiewicz’s second record for Clear, and the tantalizingly spooky vibes of its hypnotic EBM should make the scariest Halloween season of the century a little more fun. Wanzer also just dropped the 12-inch Kitchen Clock via Delroy Edwards’s chic label, L.A. Club Resource. If you stay alert, you might find vinyl copies of both before collectors snap them up!
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