In 2009, Guy Brewer, riding high as part of drum’n’bass duo Commix, looked around the room at a party he was DJing and thought, “This is fucking shit.” He was part of one of the genre’s most consequential acts of the late ’00s — one of a rare few acts to get an official Burial remix — but he didn’t feel at home there. So he switched gears to burly, monochrome four-on-the-floor beats and found equal success making po-faced, sound design–obsessed techno under the name Shifted. He had one foot in experimental ambient and noise music, and another in the Berlin-centric techno playboy DJ circuit. But as techno became bigger business (Brewer, in fact, coined the sardonic term “business techno”), he came to find it just as stifling as drum’n’bass.

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