'lobster tracks' is completely mental- continues where 'latest effort'
left off, but more melodious.
Tracks;
Scram: v. minimal (more so than cylobian sunset tracks) and super funky
melodies are very nicely skewed, putting the D in IDM bigstyle
Mod you later: more distorted than scram & only 1 min long- nice & concise
Wanking off on other people's misery: darker and squelchier. drum sounds
from the chegere track on 'latest effort'
Mano a Mano: (ha ha ha) see 'call now below'
Smash up the pram: really mental. v. harsh sounds for melody- sound like very
short samples looped.
Stomping FM: very abstract beginning- goes into a sort of stuttery drexcian
world. in fact i reckon aquatic imagery goes well with the whole
release. the cd cover has a lobster djing (drawn by a certain
chris cunningham), and i reckon you could make quite a good video
for the first track - like the chembros 'hey boy, hey girl'- but
with rendered sea creatures raving it up
Grillerwarfare: pounding stomping in the oldstyle AFX tradition but with more
delicate analogue squeals
Call now: (hehe he) I'm not one for having adverts (or parodies of them) on cds
but this is quite funny- take off of one of the lame phone-chat
adverts we get between late night programs in the UK
caaaaall nooow
overall: if you like 'latest effort' (as i do) you should really enjoy this
if youve only heard 'cylobian sunset' (heavily recommended btw) with its
simplicity and warmth then you should probably try before buying if youre not
a raver at heart. Talking of raving ('taste the flavor of the ultimate raver')
the open transport album by 'MDK' is *really* good- nice mixture of tracks-
funky/noisy, some reminicent (and sampling- BDPSMP?) of bytes black dog. they
have some stuff at mp3.com- the track 'vi' melts my heart.
also, the new Uziq is really good too (im even warming to the drill & bass
numbers) and I'm getting into squarepushers new material a lot too (took a lot
of walkman listening tho), worth being patient (like ae)
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Jameel Syed
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