Charlotte De Witte – Weltschmerz

Belgium’s Raving George aka Charlotte de Witte (releases on Bad Life and a collaboration with Oscar and the Wolf that sold 15k copies in Belgium alone) sheds her alias for an expertly  crafted EP of big-room techno. “Weltschmerz” sounds like an instant  Berghain classic; dark, massive, trippy, and with an emotional character  all too rare within the genre. The confident, housier “Damage Control”  is a straightforward flex-a-thon. “Lonesome” brings the emotion back  with its super-tense, unresolved melodies. “Relatives of None,” with its  screechy synth hook, is the nastiest of the bunch. “Weltschmerz  (Melodic Theme)” provides an epic ambient outro.