Had this review all done last night, but managed to erase it before it
was sent, so I'm doing it up again today from memory.
Anyway, the new UR, "Crime Report" (45 RPM 3 track EP) (UR-021) came out
on Monday. According to Submerge, even though this EP says "Taken from
the upcoming LP _Interstellar Fugitives_", these 3 tracks will not be on
the 12 track 3 X LP or the 15 track CD. And they're not doing test
pressings of any of the material related to ISF.
Tracklisting:
A1: "Afrogermanic" Produced by Chaos 138 BPM dark processed
"Afrogermanic/I am Afrogermanic" vocal with lots of German vocals,
including SAM and vocoder vocals that are particularly reminiscent of
Kraftwerk's use of _em on this track; music is dry kicks and snare combo
with Drexciyan style bass business and sampled percussive (I'm trying to
remember what I wrote before and it just ain_t coming) swooshes added
halfway through and claps added near the end; some eerie sweeps in there
throughout as well
B1: "Talking To Z" Produced by UR 151 BPM Not sure if this is Mike
Banks and Rolando or just Mike Banks, but it's got that Banks-style
busy-ness with chattering perc and analog lines throughout, sometimes
solo sometimes two at a time; instrumental
B2: "Mirage (Beat Vocal mix)" 152 BPM Produced by Perception; played
all three on In The Mix last night and this is the bomb of the bunch;
filtered hihats, gritty bass; lots of background and sounds moving in
the mix; edits for energy; and a vocal that_s perfectly spaced for
dropping over other tracks: "everything you hear/may not be
there/everything you read/may not be true/etc", it's quite a long vocal,
but it's well done; all vocals on this record are male, which won_t come
as a shock to anyone, I_m sure
There's a blurb on the label about the "immenent LP attack", but I'm not
going to type that in again (damn computers)
I'll play out a track or two in full on the next Techno/Electro
RealAudio chart (should be online in a week or two)
Working on getting James Pennington and/or Rolando and/or other ISFers
on In The Mix in the future.
Andrew
In The Mix/Cognition Audioworks online : listen : read
http://www.globalserve.net/~cognition