On Saqqara, The Degabah System announce themselves as an electronic act with a purposeful difference and a sonic space to occupy that’s thoroughly their own. “A macrocosm of hard-hitting light, love and sound”, the record is a sheer sonic earworm from back to front, a combination of fourteen electronic instrumental pieces that combine the hard-hitting with the minimal to create a sort of abstract form of techno that has you tapping your feet and moving along to it while being hypnotised by the rhythm of it all.
None of this harder than it does on the record’s opener, a singular synthesis of what The Degabah System have to offer consolidated in the perfect reveal. It’s like the perfect pilot, an expression of all their sonic identities into this one piece that just bursts onto you and lives almost in perpetuity as this rhythmic trance that just echoes over and over.
I found myself enamoured and beguiled by the beat, a techno style that had me craving to experience it in an environment that would almost triple its effect on your psyche and emotion.
This isn’t your everyday house or electronic record, it’s radically different and dimensionally dramatic.