Planetary Assault Systems - Planetary People
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Planetary Assault Systems - Planetary People
Holdrons Arcade
135A Rye Lane
Unit 11 Holdrons Arcade
London SE15 4ST
United Kingdom
Label: Ostgut Ton – OSTGUTLP 39
Format: Vinyl, 3 x 12", LP
Country: Germany
Released: May 22, 2026
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Ten years since Arc Angel, Luke Slater returns to Ostgut Ton as Planetary Assault Systems with Planetary People — twelve tracks across three records that carry the deliberate imagination and raw energy of an album shaped as much by live rooms and crowds as by the studio. One of Berghain's longest-serving residents and one of techno's most consistently uncompromising voices, Slater has never rushed a Planetary Assault Systems record, and the patience shows in every layer.
The album moves through bleepy, polyrhythmic, industrial-strength techno with the restless inventiveness that has defined the project since the mid-nineties. Into The Night opens in a haunting, dystopic environment of corroded acid saturated in echo.
Labyrinth breaks into buoyant tribal percussion. Retina Burn rolls on fierce cement-mixer 909 cycles, stuttering and rebuilding with relentless conviction. Beton Brut is the darkest and most unrelenting — juggernaut percussion stamping through hall reverb so vast you can visualise the room. Ha Jam offers a rare moment of danceable funk before Generation Slip closes everything out, ominous and churning, skittering percussion and electrical sparks rattling through steel like a freight train barrelling into oblivion.
