Suburban Knight – Listening Systems [DTR004.5]

James Pennington is a true Motor City original who will forever be etched into the legendary city’s musical history. Under his revered Suburban Knight alias he crafted the powerful single ‘Listening Systems’ in 2021, initially limited to a spotter-taunting 200 copies, but now repressed – and relax, record buyers everywhere. It’s a deep, warm, driving techno cut stripped back to the bare essentials with a smoky vocal whisper adding the intimacy to a kicking rhythm that is dubbed out and soft around the edges but not lacking in impact. Perfect music for mind, body and head that needs to be played nice and loud.

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Suburban Knight – Listening Systems [DTR004.5]

Suburban Knight – Suburban Knight [DTRV004]

SUBURBAN KNIGHT - Suburban Knight

James Pennington is the Detroit techno talent who records as the Suburban Knight and has done since the middle of the eighties. He’s got plenty of mini-classics to his name such as ‘The Groove’ and ‘Art of Stalking’ and now he is back with what amounts to his first solo record in over a decade having previously worked with Inner City and Underground Resistance. Here he offers scintillatingly soulful techno on ‘Inner City’, which comes with a deeper and more quickened 207737 edit. Reverse the record and you’ll find ‘Species’, an intergalactic techno trip on bumping beats. ‘Intel Bombs’ (feat Ray 7) closes out with intense drum work and turbocharged stabs.

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Suburban Knight – Suburban Knight [DTRV004]