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Razed In Black - Oh My Goth! - 24-Jun-09 05:30 AM
Fairly ordinary and unimaginative remixes of an otherwise popular goth/industrial dance hit that inevitably got played to death.
The NIN Sin cover is probably the highlight here. Ironically enough its the strongest track even though it too is a piece of music that happens to be not all that different to another popular goth/industrial dance hit that also inevitably got played to death.
This might be worth having for the serious collector who needs to own it all but – like movie remakes – you generally shouldn’t try to fix it if it’s not broken.

Torture Tekk - Revelling In Perversion - 18-Jun-09 05:54 AM
Unintentionally hillarious (or is it?) effort at veyr gothy sounding duff duff, made no less humorous by the fact that the out of key girl vocals (which are unmissable on just about every track) are clearly sung by someone who clearly shouldnt be singing.
Worth a listen or two for the LOL factor thanks to such brilliant lines - possibly sung in total seriousness by the sounds of it - like:

"You corner me / I shake inside
"but my desire / I cannot hide"
"I feel you up / againt my thigh"
"whats on your mind? / I see you cry"

CHORUS
"so open my skin / put something in"
"paly with your body / play with dirt"
"I always said love would hurt"

Maybe Im missing the pisstake factor here? either way its quality (not).

No Artist - Super Bikes Vol 2 - 23-Feb-07 09:28 AM
How do you comment about a release that consists entirely of motorbike engine sounds? Its not exactly something youd put on your stereo for the long drive home through peak hour traffic (unless you want to fool passers by that theres something BIG lurking under the bonnet of your mini when in fact its merely your stereo)...
Seriously though, from a technical point of view (for what it is) it is ok. The quality of the recordings is excellent, with no interference, background noises or notable variation in volume. The bike humming lasts for maybe thirty or so seconds a piece and you get to hear the engines idling and being gunned.
Maybe true biker freaks would get a kick out of this - Ive heard at least one Harley lover express his melancholic love for that deep, rumbling bass sound every time one flies past. For the rest of us though, this passes for a decent collection of field (highway?) recordings and is no doubt itching to be played in conjunction with just about any song ever written about motorbikes, riding, cruising and highways.

New Peculiars, The - The 'Futurismo' EP - 30-Jan-07 04:19 PM
A strange record, making it particularly difficult to describe (who was it that said something along the lines that writing about music is like dancing to architecture, or some such). So here goes...
The sound is cacophonous, screachy, chaotic and "loose" (in that its not completely random). The instruments are not distorted per see but are seemingly out of tune. Its as if an orchestra is all going at once, every player doing their own thing, and yet there is some strange vaguely ordered general direction amongst it all.
A1 is a forward direction (ie not altogether random) collection of clashing instruments, with the screaches of strings merging with a deranged flow of thin beats, lead by bizarre lyricless vocals that have the emotion and feel of a mad circus announcer.
A2 consists of musical cascades, all the instruments clashing ahead at the same time - try to imagine King Crimson being played by a possessed elementary school band.
B1 is an eerie run of beehive buzzing drones – nothing like the first two tracks. It has some vague-touching-the-microphone scratchy thuds underlying it.
B2 is the most confronting track on the record, where the string instruments are bashed and tortured to such an extent that they could almost pass as animal or human brays and groans. The effect is seriously creepy at first though one eventually becomes accustomed to it.
All in all, this is damn fine experimental music, to say the least. Only the recording quality is let down, but I secretly suspect that an improvement would take away from its charm.

Gospel Of The Horns - Monuments Of Impurity - 30-Jan-07 09:43 AM
Averag so-so old school sounding release that invokes the words primitive, barbaric and clichéd, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing with this kind of music…
A1 is the highlight. Thin drums (you can barely hear the snares) which somehow give it a simpler, almost Germanic tribal drumming feel. There’s the mandatory growly vocals, which are a little less screetchy than the usual black metal dosage. There’s thrashable time changes, although they’re predictable and the tempo never takes off into hyperspace. The guitars are heavy as, with simple but oh so headbanging riffs and some simple backing very-80s guitar fiddleydiddleing to boot. Unfortunately, the primitive sound that somehow works for the drums does not seem to work for the guitars, giving them a feeble presence.
B1 is a simple would-be-thrash anthem, the sort you could hold a Steiner in the air to whilst simultaneously cursing those pesky Christians (or your enemies… or whoever). It’s a simple repetitive riff with typically blasphemous lyrics on top. There’s also a short and quite good thrash metal solo somewhere in the middle, but it’s lost in the poor production.
B2 is an instrumental, totally in the vein of old school 80s death and thrash. Hardly original but definitely one to appeal to the legions of wrinkly leather jacket wearing warriors of old, with fast strumming guitars, rolling drums, and a no doubt irresistible windmilling effect if this were done live.
All in all, a release that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is, and which is let down by some crappy production (though there’s always a strong extreme music contingent that argues that this is the way it should be).

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