cthulhu303, Jul 04, 2008
Yet another buy-for-label-completion's-sake that turned out to be a big punch in the face. Xanopticon has been hyped up quite a bit, following the footsteps left by Venetian Snares in the audiences' need for heroes. The inevitable consequence was for him to be dismissed or overlooked by a few conservative know-it-alls (yours, truly) for being too popular to be honest. A mistake, it seems, if this release is a representative sample. Intricate, fast, but undistorted electro rather than breakcore, there is not much to be heard, other than waves of percussion mayhem, piling up, layer upon layer, for a big lasagna of tension that is not without resemblance to Undacova's DR-12 (or the other way round). The loud mastering is, of course, a big bonus.
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