If you figure in Holger Zilske’s release history as Smash TV, Mindlab and Acrid Gain then his debut solo album has been a long time in the incubation chamber. Fifteen years after the German appeared as Acrid Gain on an old hardcore mix (incidentally available on cassette at the time) we receive the long player Holz, which translates in English as timber. Of course we’ve heard a full length from Zilske before under the Smash TV moniker, but that was with then production partner Michael Schmidt and sound wise the two outfits are definitely their own entities. Stylistically, his Mindlab project (also featuring Schmidt), which only released one twelve on the now defunct Salo is the closest link to the recent solo material from the Berlin based producer.