v/a: FIVE
Sabotage Recordings 20 1997
Beanfield: The laboratory of Dr. BJ Harris
EPY: Open
Farmers Manual: Ulan Bator
Bluish: Speaker
Alois Huber: Onotut
Def Con: Lima-Victor
Sluta Leta: Fonk Fonk Fonk
Pita: Untitled
Pomassl: Atto
DFTK: Satan's Tool
A. Burger: Device F
Rhacoon: Ticalian Breaks
Sugar B: Sugars Authentic Dub Disco
This is a very nice compilation of funky techno. Some of it is
trip-hop (Beanfield, EPY), some of it is more four-on-the-floor, and
there are even a few breaks here and there. The Farmers Manual track
is experimental and almost ambient, the Bluish track is at
first trip-hoppy and melodic then goes jungle-ballistic, and the
Alois Huber track experimental again with a dubby electroish flavor.
Def Con goes for some trip hop, Suta Leta's track is noisy and about
8 secs long, and the Pita number is electroid and crunchy.
All of the tracks have dark, lo-fi feel, but there is an unmistakable
FUNKINESS about most of this stuff.
This comp appears to be aligned with FIVE Magazine out of Vienna.
I highly recommend this comp, but as usual you should try to listen
before you purchase (duh!).
On next: Neven: Twin Cycles...sample-o-mania!
jim
"Without music life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche--