Balrog - Slagheap Society [IOD053]

Support the label, buy it here: Artist: Balrog Title: The Northern Powerhouse LP Label: Instruments of Discipline Catalogue: IOD053 Format: Digital Genre: Electronic Style: #Techno Release date: 14th February 2022 Balrog’s debut album, “The Northern Powerhouse” is composed of 8 hard-hitting techno tracks, focusing on heavy, groove-ridden drums, driving basslines and obscure, distorted vocals. His tracks take influence from classic, hard-grooving techno but with a fresh injection of modern, industrial power. The framework for the tracks was developed in the midst of the fallout from the UK leaving the EU and the numerous attempts to “level up” the north of the country through The Northern Powerhouse scheme, from which the album derives its name. Conceptually, the album is an attempt from the artist to dissociate himself from Brexit and the conservative government which has consistently stigmatised the most vulnerable in UK society and spread lies on an industria