I found a Wax Trax single this weekend for Psychoslaphead that gleefully
cheered "Psychoslaphead aka Juno Reactor aka Electrotete" on the sticker.
This intrigued me since I think "I Love You" was one of the best tracks of
1992.
However, I didn't buy the single, what I did buy was another thing I ran over
in the store by Juno Reactor. A full length album. When I arrived at home,
my Electrotete and Psychoslaphead releases offered no clues as to who this
person is. Juno Reactor is supposedly "Otto the Terrible", where both the
Electrotete and PSH releases were produced respectively by Electrotete and
PSH.
So how does it sound? Ok, probably a 7 on the XDZ scale (uh oh... I don't
want to jump... back... in...). Not as good as the highly discussed
Vapourspace album, but not bad at the same time. Its biggest weakness is the
utterly bland rhythm (it seems there is only one for the entire album, a
simple kick drum that pounds off the 4/4). Nice workings of sweep into some
acidics. My favorite moment was when he waxes ambient in the last track and
comes up with Peter Gabriel's "Passion" and the sample I'm surprised nobody
has bothered to use before...
Steven Hawking's voice synthesizer