Neil Landstrumm-UNDERSTANDING DISINFORMATION
Tresor Records
#53
2xLP
Tracks:
'twisted in new york'
'praline horse'
'range rover traxx'
'invasion of the bovine snatchers'
'the glasvegas experience'
'pirate'
'crash/zx-81'(er something...)
'nasty & suspicious nature'
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I'm posting this to 313 as well, as this material would appeal more to
them than to us on IDM, but many on IDM have bought the album.
Neil Landstrumm is quite a prize for both IDM/313 camps because he offers
a taste of both, the hard and the soft. UNDERSTANDING DISINFORMATION is
a good example of this. The altogether feel of the album is hardcore
techno, Detroit style, as you may have guessed, but with groove & funk
intertwined.
If you've heard the "Inhabit the Machines" ep on Peacefrog recently,
you'll know what you're getting here. The cover has a big alien head,
and the back has some schematic drawings of some sort, resembling early
'80s artwork during the Kraftwerk (Computer World) period. Cool.
It was saddening to only get 8 tracks, but for $15.98, what was I to
expect?
'twisted in new york' sounds more like the obvious elements of Chicago and
Detroit coming together for an anthemic techno outing. Danceable, and DJ
friendly. 'praline horse' is a full-on hard straightforward industritechno
assault, pitchbends, 909's n-all. And pretty damn moody, too! Enough to
keep the momz and popz out of yer rooms!
'the glasvegas experience', and 'pirate', you get more pitchbending, hard
909 kicks, snares, and filtery liquid rhythms. 'pirate' goes even
further by blasting us with 12-gauge heavy groovy basslines, and
drum rolls-in some ways like early F.L.A. Where's my dentist's drill? Damn!
Neil's got it.
'nasty & suspicious nature' was the only slow and low track on the album,
nice little esoteric track to fill a void somewhere in an experimental
set, or in my case, at the beginning or end of my mixtapes.
Good. Damn Good.
9/10
Derek Jordan
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