Artist: Drumcell, Thomas Hoffknecht
Title: Severance Check EP
Label: CLR
Cat. #: CLR099
Format: Digital
Release Date: 25th March 2022
Tracklist:
01 Arrp
02 Arrp (Cut Edit)
03 Severance Check
04 Arrp (Tool Edit)

Drumcell and Thomas Hoffknecht team up for ‘Severance Check EP’ on Chris Liebing’s CLR this March.

Working together for the first time, Los Angeles’ based Drumcell, previously a core CLR artist, and Hamburg-based DJ and producer Thomas Hoffknechtjoin forces for ‘Severance Check EP’ on CLR, turning in four heaving techno tracks for Chris Liebing’s imprint.

Leading the release is the original mix of ‘Arrp’, which sees two further edits throughout the EP. Bringing heavy synth stabs and pumping drums, the track kicks off the release with a bang. Following is the ‘Cut Edit’ of ‘Arrp’, bringing a headsy dose of alternate stabs and loose claps to the mix for a rowdy edit.

The title track, ‘Severance Check’, follows with tripped out bleeps, reverberated percussion, and crunching sound FX before ‘Arrp (Tool Edit)’ closes out the release with a dose of pounding kicks, sizzling hats, and monstrous breakdowns.

Liebing’s iconic CLR imprint, started in 1999, returned in 2021 after a five-year hiatus. Initially titled Chris Liebing Records until 2010, then Create Learn Realize until the break, and now Create Learn Repeat, CLR reemerged in the techno underground with releases from Liebing himself, followed by newcomer Frankie Bromley, upstarts Hertz Collision & Gene Richards Jr, and DEAS, as well as veteran Luke Slater.