Benzo - The Tapes

first word that comes to mind is techno. Good old. Remastered. Repatriated. Catchy, groovy rhythms of funny house, sometimes reminding "speed garage" drums. The album begins more strangely with slow tracks with ethnic feel given by guitarish sad sequences (Unsuccessful Hunt, At The Campfire) and some panflute (The Village 'Morse') over dirty-as-they-should-be pulses, bass notes and noises of old sound apparata.

Then begins The Cellar at Technical Scool - funny rhythm through all 8:14, sauced with adorable analog noise sometimes, which makes people wonder what's going on in my headphones.

Summertime is another rhytmic minimalism, like funnier, much funnier pan sonic, up to the middle where it becomes slow analog techno with ambientish sounds over it.

Next 6 minutes and 55 seconds Benzo spends searching for vodka in atmosphere of rather anxious minimal techno. I don't know if he found what he was looking for.

Where's My House - this title is funny in english. Your house is right here in this track! But in fact it should be "Home", not "House". The track starts with sounds which resemble raindrops under some old bridge in the middle of the night. Then maybe the house is found, cause it starts.

Rubber Weights remind some tracks from Kotra "Tek" with technic-industrial sounds.

On the Tractor is a funny track with repeated square wave bass riffie. Too long as for me.

Wallpaper with a Flower Pattern is very good, joyful, funny techno with an extremely lovable hi-hat. At the beginning of track there is an extract from some american movie, which were translated by one person and shown on local tv channels during several years after the end of USSR.

A Trip to Bukhara is indeed a step into the Uzbekistan and oriental melodic. Little step, though.

Dark analog ambient from Dimitrov-town closes the album. There is a voice from a telephone saying "best wishes to you, goodbye". But last seconds of this track are like "to be continued" played by notes - harsh techno riff comes out on the surface and starts to develop, but sorry, the album ends and we'll continue this in a new one. Something like that.