SHXCXCHCXSH
RUSSELL BUTLER
Nihar Bhatt
Justin Anastasi
Damon Way
Chris Zaldua
Jason Polastri

By their own admission, there's not even an easy way to refer to them (label boss Shifted prefers "the Swedish guys"). Luckily, SHXCXCHCXSH have already proven themselves. Last year's LP presented seven lengthy techno journeys that went beyond the horizon and back again. With Linear-S Decoded, they've opened up slightly—it's more tangential than their past work, but all the better for it.