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>Here's a one time offer: Send me your complete proper name >(I N P R I V A T E E M A I L, N O T P O S T S T O I D M) >and I'll anagram it. After I've accumulated a few I'll pick my >favorites and post them in one message.

i'm lucky cos "jon drukman" neatly anagrams into "random junk". now if that's not appropriate, i don't know what is. talk about what's in a name... anyway, to make this less than a total smegging waste of bandwidth, i present... a review. EAT STATIC - Epsylon EP Planet Dog BARK 009CDS Eat Static are my heroes. Not only do they have the nerve to come from a hippy prog-rock band (Ozric Tentacles) but they make uncompromising balls to the wall electronic music. Playful, colorful, like a gigantic multicolored beach ball of noises being bounced around your brain, and all wrapped up in unfashionable, anachronistic Roger Dean-esque sleeves. You gotta love 'em. The Epyslon EP is a splendid 36-minute offering of four choice nuggets. The title track kicks things off with the trademark psychedelic noisefest and evolves into a stomping floor-melting feast before dissolving into a trippy, dreamy break. Out of the break into some pingy acid noises that are unlike anything else out there. These guys are so creative. It's a real trick to make dance music that is dense and varied enough to stand up as listening music but spare enough to work at the lethal decibel levels that most dance floors thrive on. I would say that most of the touted acts of so-called "listening techno" have failed miserably at it, in fact. Eat Static are the epitome of how to do it right. And when one speaks of dance music that often fails as listening fare, the dreaded "j" word can't be far off. So you won't be surprised when I tell you that the second cut, "Dionysiac" is a jungle track! Psychotic electronic and super fresh, it's got the Ozric's blend of dub and eastern sounds over a splice'n'dice drum track. A relentlessly mutating grab bag of weird noises that puts all the crud on that hack "Counterforce" compilation to shame. One thing that I think works in their favor is that one of their members is a drummer. Having seen him play live, I was suitably blown away. His experience with real drums lends a real snap to their rhythms. Anyway, from the jungle back to the great metropolis of techno. "Peeow!" is a very quirky clonky bleep techno kind of thing. Rather minimal, it would work better in a club than in headphones. Not one of their strongest cuts, but even the runts of their litter can rip the shit out of most other puppies. We wrap it all up with "Undulattice (uforic remix)" which is a remix of the track Uforic Undulance, from last year's winning Implant LP. The original was fairly relaxed with a sinuous acid groove. This one beefs it up a bit with thumping drums and a generally more aggressive attitude. I like it. Jon Drukman jsd@cyborganic.com I can tell you're cool because your water costs more than your beer.