Keith Tucker
Lifeform EP
(Puzzlebox/US)
TECHNO
Straight up, this is a most *important* release. Not just another case of
313 techno bass history in the making, with "Face Your Fate," the reported
first ever battle record in the genre, nor for the obviously punctual UFO
reference of "Area 51" and it's accompanying in-space-throwing-shapes
Alien euFMisms! Deeper still goes the further adventures of the K-1
agenda, with a dedication, "...to the life and spirit of Gerrold Simms."
Rest in Peace. (Teep)
Ballet Mechanique
Borrenbergs II
(Eevo Lute/NL)
TECHNO
Disregard the cheeky concept titled intentions, this is not a record which
will facilitate my trip to the little boys room for a tinkle. Leaders of
the intelligent dance music new school, Eevo Lute Muzique cast another
Ballet Mechanique twelve inch of distinguished 'one man band' brand techno
drama, performed with pirouetting progressive percussion and tippy toes
melodic twists and turns. Each act (Where's the DJ, Vinyl Voyage, and
Diamond Cut) require your undivided attention. (Teep)
Drexciya
The Quest
(Submerge/US)
TECHNO
For those few techno bass heads like myself who have been navigating the
aquarhythms of Drexciya from their very first surfacings, there really was
no doubt in our minds with regard to question, "should we fish this 2CD of
previously released material out of the www.submerge.com record pool?"
Aside from defending an infallible Aquazone dissertation, "Bata Particles,
Hydro Cubes, and the Bubble Metropolis" the promise of deep sea diving
into 10 original/exclusive uncharted waters, (with promising titles like
Dead Man's Reef and Vampire Island) provided more then enough enticement.
Each journey here does not disappoint, rather, enchant the imagination as
you "Decompress" in the frosty tops of the "Neon Falls," or splash around
in the doubled up low ph white water of "the Aquabon remix". Truth told,
on "the Red Hills of Lardossa," one minute you are basking in the
"Antivapor Waves" pool side and the next gasping in the agitated wake of
Doctor Blowfins's water cruiser. (Teep)