CANO catalogue / Janno Kekkonen
Hands
Janno Kekkonen — Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) · 4B · 111 BPM · 2016
I hear Kekkonen forcing dub techno into red-lining territory at 111 BPM, letting the genre’s signature delay and reverb harden into something closer to industrial pressure. The E-major tonality cuts through the murk with an almost metallic brightness, refusing the usual minor-key melancholy in favour of a forward, teeth-clenched momentum that feels closer to nine than five on the dial. I’d place this where the warm-up ends and the walls start to sweat—too restless for the backroom, too submerged for straight techno. It builds a room of its own: low ceiling, heavy air, strobes cutting through smoke. I drop this when I want the floor locked without surrendering the dub lineage entirely.