Waveform Transmission Vol. 1

Waveform Transmission Vol. 1 is techno with no consolation offered, brutal and fast and monochrome, Jeff Mills setting the standard for hard techno in one uncompromising record. There's no warmth and no relief, just relentless forward motion, and Birmingham and Berlin both heard it clearly. It's the sound of the genre at its most severe. It ranks at fifty-five because severity is its entire mode, but nothing here does severe better.