Regel #6 and #7 are the continuation of Mattin and Anders Bryngelsson’s Regel project where the concept is to take the essence of a musical genre by distilling and mimic:ing it into the core meaning of it’s conceptual music, or the rule of the music style addressed. This time they attacked techno (on A side) and drone music (on B side.). Basically you take the intrinsic meaning of the style and follow it’s guiding principles with the bare minimum parts, as long as possible. It might sound academic, or even repeat-full boring, but at the same time it’s a fascinating attempt to create art of art itself into what is the meaning of it. To some degree, the listener might even get disoriented due to the repetitions with subtle changes that might be heard at the third listening. Reviewed by Kai Sync on July 20, 2016 at 1:40 pm

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Mattin and Drajan return to conquer two new forms on another vinyl release by Regler, now modded to a trio to include bassist Henrik Andersson to replicate the bare minimum of what the club must provide. “Regel #6” is the very definition of four-on-the-floor techno, cavernous percussive thump, exacting and supple, with some slapback between the thuds, guitar ticking off as a counter, and the occasional reinforcement of a tone within the pulsebeat. It goes on and on and on, the form expanded as far as it can go. Not dissimilar in approach as their debut, but in result we have another real moment of freedom through as much structure as the form will hold. “Regel #7” somehow isn’t as successful – it’s a long, transforming hum, with ride cymbal surges behind it. What’s wrong here is that all drone is drone; it’s hard to simplify, and the work done here feels like more, well, work than most drone appears fully capable of. Which is to say, you can find a lot of drone records that this one can’t speak for, wherein the project’s percussion-driven examples (techno, blastbeat) find the omega form for those musics and run them through their course. As the labels of the record state, “find a beat and follow it” and “find a tone and follow it,” though that logic is only halfway there, since beats are far less arbitrary than tones, unless it’s the tone made by switching on one’s instruments and doing nothing. Since we can’t really confirm that, it’ll get the yellow flag for now, but since their first LP was basically a one-sided affair too, this’ll pass. (http://quemadarecords.blogspot.com) 
(Doug Mosurock)