[Prologue]

Milton Bradley’s name has been synonymous with Do Not Resist The Beat!, his label and the instructions for ingesting the spacey, paranoid slates he’s been turning out since late 2008. His newest 12″, The Unheard Voice From Outer Space, arrives courtesy of Munich’s Prologue, whose line-up of Cio D’or, Samuli Kemppi, and Giorgio Gigli are sonic kin to his neuron-probing techno aesthetic. Despite its relatively slender profile the title cut embodies the enormity of outer space with its twisted, affected and dessicated machine babble, braying bass lines and far-off mechanical screams all kept at a distance. The ambivalence of its its drifting trajectory injects dread into the mostly hollow track and sets it apart more as a soundscape than as a DJ’s go-to cut.

The exploration of alien terrain continues with “Interdimensional Entity,” which fills the empty space left by the title track with rumbling static and a broken kick drum pattern. Riddled with panicking synth stabs, it’s a more intense cut although not as engrossing or otherworldly as the title track. “Somewhere Beyond My Illusion” is much more spartan and somber, wracked by piercing dub upstrokes whose anguished decay brings to mind the desolate sound Shackleton mastered on Three EPs. More a patient reconnaissance mission through his own sound than a search for new ones, The Unheard Voice From Outer Space nonetheless is a worthwhile to delve into black matter sounds that techno jocks might want to have tucked in their sleeve for just the right alien moment.