Portland's Strategy's impressive 15 year plus discography rests on his ability to reference disparate music forms whilst making them sound entirely and distinctly his own. Whether crystalline dub, cerebellum-tingling ambient, atavistic post-punk or two steps beyond, Strategy remakes them in his own inimitable image. On Pressure Wassure, he not only plunders the fertile bounty of early 90s UK hardcore, he eviscerates the genre's taut snares, bowel shaking bass and Dionysian spirit, reimagining that era's ecstasy enlightened explorations for contemporary dancefloors. Strategy sprinkles in neon p-funk flourishes, deft bassline deconstructions and the sheer murder of once familiar samples. In the span of just four devastating tracks, Strategy offers up supple, devastating pressure. Hand assembled, "label-bankrupting" red flocked covers.
