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The focus of the, er, nu-industrial wave is Berlin duo Ancient Methods, AKA Conrad ‘Baeks’ Protzmann and Trias. Ancient Methods’ material is tough-as-teflon but funky as hell; they manage to make music that sounds at once brutalising and, well, rather sensuous. The most recent AM offering is the sensational Fourth Method 12": the lead track (they're all untitled, which only adds to the sense of murk and disorientation) deploys all kinds of abrasive post-Vainio drone and scree, but rides a flexing rhythm reminiscent of recent Monolake and Surgeon. The B1 is more straightforward, the kind of juddering, high-BPM dub-techno redolent of Tresor and mid-90s Berlin, while the EP closes out with a broken, saw-toothed monster that comes over like T++ in an absolutely stinking mood. This 12"'s predecessor, Third Method, is for me the duo's most satisfying release to date: three tracks of metallic scourings and traumatised breakbeats chiselled to pert perfection. Check in particular ‘Else’ (Ugandan Method), a rhythmically challenging dancefloor-thresher wreathed in Sleeparchive-style bleeps. The more recent 'The Whip' isn't even techno, at least not in the conventional since; it's just a slow, primal-futurist drum tattoo that's as captivating as it is simple. On the B-side kindred spirit Bjorn Svin contributes 'Eat Like Hawk', which sounds like Hawtin's mix of La Funk Mob fed through a meat-grinder. In a good way.

These tunes are cruel to be kind, they ask a lot of you but they offer a rich, rich dividend. Check them out, but before you do that, download Ancient Methods' mix for Mnml Ssgs, a riveting session that finds Vestigial and Roger Rotor rubbing shoulders with Patrick Pulsinger and Thomas Bangalter (there’s also a big presence from Sähkö, Raster-Noton and Robert Henke, reminding us that the world of sound-art, glitch and ‘gallery techno’ is where the industrial aesthetic has been hiding and festering for most of the noughties). Most importantly, this mix - for my money the most important and impressive of 2009 - shows that the modern industrial techno sound, unlike that of yore, is about nuance as well as brute-force. The influence of Basic Channel on Ancient Methods is palpable and profound: what makes their metallic ruffage easy for a pansy like me to countenance is its dubwise modulation and processing; moreover the beats are sophisticated, syncopated and polyrhythmic, full of squashed, Shed-style breaks and the kind of broken tunnelist grooves so beloved of Berghain and its residents. It's music that's ascetic and severe, but somehow luxuriant at the same time. I simply can't recommend it enough.