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Minimal techno has a new noteworthy producer, and rather than originating from the United States or Germany, he's all the way out in South Africa.Spoek Mathambo affiliate Jumping Back Slash is a Cape Town producer with house music roots who was featured on a mix we posted last year. He recently dropped Mshini Music, a 4-track EP that strips away the house melodies for acidic sequenced keyboards and mechanized 808 beats to form a sound indebted to techno legends Omar S and Jamal Moss. "'Mshini' means machine and/or machine gun," the producer explained to Okayafrica "as in the protest song 'Mshini Wam.' In the sense of the EP, it denotes the machine as a drum machine or a sequencer, and centers it in South Africa."Watch the video below for the cut "Stink Midi," which the producer noted was "created entirely from using imagery and type from some TR-808 drum machine schematics." The full EP can be heard here.