Just Picked up the Neotropic "Laudrophonic" 12" (ntone 18). A four track EP
from Riz aka Small Fish with Spine. I'd heard a few cuts under this moniker on
various comps, and its always more dark and whooshy than the Small Fish stuff.
The tracks are _Laudry 1-4_ and the packaging is in that vein as well. The
first cuts is very dark. A mixture of wierd industial clanks used as
percussion. Track 2 is a little faster and more frenetic but still scary as
heck. Track 3 is more of the same industrial ambient hip hop. The real gem is
the final track a nice creepy dark breakbeat number with the same evil groove
as the cut on the Earthrise ntone comp (name eludes me). Aside from track 4 its
a bit too scattered for me. One minute there's a beat then its gone. The
samples at time seem out of place.
6/10 good but not great
Anyone care to contrast this with the album as I'm unsure whether I need 2 more
lps like this. I love the first Small Fish 12" so I'm thinking about buying
"15 levels" or whatever its called.
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Mark Bowen
mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu