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Purchase Artist: Balrog Release: The Northern Powerhouse LP cat number: IOD053 Release date: Format: CD digital Balrogs debut album, The Northern Powerhouse is composed of 8 hardhitting techno tracks, focusing on heavy, grooveridden drums, driving basslines and obscure, distorted vocals. His tracks take influence from classic, hardgrooving techno but with a fresh injection of modern, industrial power. The framework for the tracks was developed in the midst of the fallout from the UK leaving the EU and the numerous attempts to level up the north of the country through The Northern Powerhouse scheme, from which the album derives its name. Conceptually, the album is an attempt from the artist to dissociate himself from Brexit and the conservative government which has consistently stigmatised the most vulnerable in UK society and spread lies on an industrial scale in order to push forward their agenda. Through the album, a series of linked tracks mirr