knarz = thomas heckmann's moniker for grungey ebm-inspired techno, right? lots of nitzer ebb covers and shouty german vocals, w/ heavy grating basslines (a bunch of this stuff has been re-released recently). the new grummich stuff definitely seems in that vein, as well as that brian aneurysm record on spectral...i don't think the tempos are particularly slower, although it could be really great to hear some of this stuff drop to 110-115 bpm...
the audion stuff almost seems to recall mentasm-y rave and early tweaked-out robert armani-styled stuff, to me...grummich is grinding, visceral...audion seems more ecstatic....
on a possibly semi-tangential note, what do people here think of the recent sun god/hieroglyphic being releases? while maybe not as textured as the other artists mentioned, the recent sun god stuff feels really brillaintly unhinged to me...raw analog freak-outs that constantly seem on the verge of falling completely apart...same goes for the recent releases on muzique, by sun god and steve poindexter....