Tutankhamon 9000 - Lost In Luxor

maroko, Jun 19, 2009

It has been two years now since D-A-R-K Records released a two track digital EP by this demented duo, consisting of Wille Waldemar Hermansson and Jarno Elias Wallasvaara, entitled Pharaos Phart, while Wille W. Hermansson raised one too many eyebrows last year with his Astroschnautzer debut album on Space Boogie Productions. That same label now brings us a full lenghth album by these suomi freaks!
Bottom line is that Lost in luxor is right up my alley, tickling my spot in just about any imaginable way! Despite the funny as hell, and thus very conspicious, cover art and some pretty goofy track titles, there is nothing looney about the music. This is just great, eleven relentless tracks moving at supersonic speed and spanning over almost 78 minutes of time is about as good as it gets.
All tracks, and I do mean each and every one, are loaded with high octane energy, while sick n demented sounds protrude from all over the place, dribbling out of the speaker and drilling their way to the core of your head. The thing to keep in mind here is that this is *not* an album which is set to rediscover tap water, its main focus is aimed at keeping the crazy dancers four feet above sea level at any given time. There isnt much, if any diversity here as well, but what you do get is a massive onslaught of constantly accelerating audio wizardry, shifting and morphing FX, raw, bulldozer like party music which leaves no time for breaks and/or pauses. In fact, with the exception of A Bulk Of Hulks, no other track uses samples or vocal snippets of any kind.
Its bound to set you on a roller coaster of a journey during the most intense part of the night. Dark, mental, twisted, uncompromising, groovy all the way through and cerebral full on psy trance from Finland which deserves to be exposed and heard. Play it loud. Dance to it hard.
Theres an acute instinct for detail these guys are obviously very well acquainted with, as each track provides quite a few particular and erratic sound patterns, with pretty unconventional arrangements of intractable layers, enabling the album to successfully dodge being pinned to the frequently emblematic and standardized niche of similar releases.
Fans of hard as nails full on music and always dissimilar suomi sound, as well as fans/DJs of acoustic insanity should be on home ground with this top of the line party psy trance which never ventures far too deep in the realm of darkness, avoids stereotypes and steers clear of cheesy elements, and still not detaching itself from the constantly present psychadelia factor.
Uncontrollable dance floor mayhem guaranteed.

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