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Name: Cthulhu Home Page: http://cthulhu303.tripod.com/index.html http://cthulhu303.gemm.com/ http://www.narcosis.be http://www.myspace.com/cthulhu303 Member Since: Mar 20, 2002 Rank: 22921 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.07, 15 votes) Rated 406 releases, average: 2.61 Location: the R'lyeh Barracks / the K'n-yan Mansion Profile: 
Plays hard, dark, harsh tekno-acidik sounds. From ambient to hardcore through techno and electro. Beatmorphing is the key. "What is beatmorphing?" she asked. "It's the KEY!" he answered. Do not hesitate to book me for your parties or buy my records on gemm - I have bills to pay too. Mixes by Cthulhu are to be found in the mixes forum and here. Cthulhu is a member of Narcosis and matos (movement against tracklistings of sets). | |
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Xanopticon - The Silver Key EP - 04-Jul-08 01:03 AM
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.
Underground Resistance - Kamikaze - 20-May-08 03:42 AM
The introduction by Monte Markham, whose speech is taken from the series of documentaries Air Combat, aired on NBC in the early 1990s, gives way to the screaming sound of a crashing plane that sets the mood. Then, it is rave terror ahead, with a gentle Acid line, techno beats and a roaring hoover. The result sounds a little dated, really and is perhaps only worthwhile for nostalgia value. Yet the break at the end of the second third brings in deep, lush strings that only Mad Mike could have produced. Absolutely timeless moment, that.
Mike Ink
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Walker* - Lovecore EP - 13-May-08 03:25 AM
Growling, grungy Acid by those two veterans, and probably the most exciting (and abrasive) project Mike Ink has ever been involved with. Quite far-fetched from round kickdrums and glossy, sliding basslines, this is an all-out distorted assault on the senses. The hi-hats are typically Walker, and so is the monotony on several tracks. The eerie, melodic layer on Lovecore might be Mike Ink-like (it certainly is not Walker), but the muddiness and the accumulation of layers of sounds point more towards Martin Damm than Wolfgang. Rumour has it that one out of the two was going through relationship turbulences at the time and that it was the source of the title. Perhaps this could be why it sounds so unusual.
Lovecore (She) is the least interesting of the pack with a very clubby approach and an irritating, processed voice sample.
Lovecore (He) is very similar but meaner, hence more appealing.
Bewarehouse and especially Please Don't Goa are the muddiest. Stretching beyond reasonable timeframes, the latter is a thirteen-minute, monotonous Acid jam that rolls like the Crawling Chaos and, quite logically, takes its full meaning when played from beginning to end.
The most ferocious track is definitely Church Of The Poison Mind: venomous arrows shot straight through the heart, incarnated by a shower of extremely high-pitched Acid traits over another rolling, growling, armoured car of a 303. If it does not induce sudden Death, it might as well be the climax of a set.
Subjects, The - Dark Matter / Beyond - 30-Apr-08 06:07 AM
Absolutely smashing stuff from the Limelight-era Mills. For whichever reason (surely, it involves copyrights and money; this reads "Licensed from Frank De Wulf Productions", the Two Thumbs re-re-release, which was already licensed from ULR One, itself licensed from Undertow), this is the one pressing that is solely credited to The Subjects. The original tracks are the exact same anyway: hard Acid techno of a high caliber.
Spinning Atoms' remix leaves the Acid out and loads the kickdrum with growth hormones to produce the heavy, hard-hitting techno that was popular in the late '90s. The Headcleaner version surfs on the clubbier sound that emerged then and sounds even more dire now than then. It has very little to do with the original and, unlike its ancestor, did not age very well.
Phreak - II - 28-Apr-08 12:54 AM
A vastly disliked release, this. It certainly is not something that will thunderstrike the listener indeed, especially when compared to its more illustrous predecessor on the same label. The A side is pretty slow and strange in the rhythm programming (1.4's goes backwards, 1.5's recycles the UK hardcore type of breakbeat); the B side has some lighthearted party elements to it, which is sure to cause eyebrows to raise in a dark Acid track or set. That is not to say this record is useless rubbish, though. In fact, if they are less prominent than on I, the Acidlines here are as masterful and, under the right circumstances and with the right dose of creativity, the tracks can sound very nice.
Shame about the horrible mastering. It makes both inner-cuts sound obscure and underground, but one has to be an equaliser-guru to make them even audible. Whoever did this must have had wet celeri in their ears and a flying helmet on top.
