Shaw Cuts enters the site of crime with its first release called ‘Have Sword, Will Travel’. The EP includes 4 techno assassins – two tracks by the label founder himself LaChriz, who introduces his shaolin moniker ‘Farron’ and 2 remixes by the argentinian boxer Jonas Kopp. ‘Equinox’ opens the slaughter with shaking break-beat punches in combination with atmospheric pads surrounding the drum jabs. Ti Lung would have been pleased. The track ‘Apo-G’ comes in sly and chases the enemy with dirty drums and menacing distorted sound spheres that will morph the bad guys into dead guys – throwing star style. The B-side gets taken over all the way by Jonas Kopp, who brings up two different remixes of ‘Equinox’ that can easily cut off the rival’s extremities like a sharp guillotine. And the carnage just begun
