zacmobile

Name: Zac
Home Page: http://www.myspace.com/zacmobile
Member Since: Feb 27, 2003
Rank: 928
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.67, 3 votes)
Rated 723 releases, average: 4.28
Location: a backwater hippy/hick town somewhere in the mountains of western canada.
Profile: On a lifelong journey to discover music that mirrors the relentless pounding distortion in my head.

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100.0% positive (12 ratings)

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Reviews:

Huren - Barracks - 03-Jul-07 11:31 AM
An unusual lack of kick drums permeates this release, at least not the way we're used to hearing them: EQ'ed very subtly where they're more implied than stated but it by no means makes the devastation any less.

B1 is a relentless 16th note synth workout whereas B2 has a less hectic and more machinic assembly line feel to it, both excellent pieces. But the outstanding achievement on here is Azerbajan which is an almost overwhelming brain melting psychedelic industrial(?!) progression that rides the razors edge between Techno and full on Rhythmic Noise, and yet is completely unallied with any clichéd Techno or Industrial contrivances.

Like most of Hurens work, way ahead of its time, perhaps even a time that will never exist.

Kareem - Black September - 13-Aug-04 02:20 AM
Many years ago when I first heard the word “industrial” used in the context of music I immediately envisioned a ballet mechanique of clanking and grinding machinery and assembly line robotics run amok. A dark and desolate place where machines ruled and humans feared to tread. Then I was severely disappointed when all I got was distorted trance. But Kareem fixed all that with this one, each track a minimal techno/industrial opus with the repetitive rhythmic intensity of a passing freight train. Old rusty steamhammers and diesel powered piledrivers, that have sat dormant for decades and by rights should no longer be operational, have taken a life of their own and Black September is the result. This is true industrial music.

Pressurehead / UK Skullfuck - Untitled - 01-Aug-04 01:35 PM
The first two tracks by Pressurehead are hardcore of the dark and irregular sort, no straight-up 4/4 beats here. ‘Sandman’ starts off with a chilling reverbed piano line before descending into some bone-crushing schizo gabber beats and cutup hip-hop breaks.
‘Henrietta’ could be classified as darkstep more than anything else, with its pitch-bent snare rolls, dirty as hell doomy bass line and disturbing vocal samples of some old man talking about “Henriettas” stomach ailments. ‘Track 16’ brings us to more familiar 200 bpm gabber Surgeon 16 territory, I think a friend of mine summed up this track best: “sounds like music to run a police roadblock in a mack truck to!” truly aggro headbangin’ pump-you-up type stuff.
The UK Skullfuck side is dirty gutter(cyber)punk breaks and noise with a political agenda that, in true punk style, sounds as if it was done with minimal and scavenged equipment. Its like Digital Hardcore without the overt and annoying “fuck the system!” type vocals so prevalent in music of this type, short and blatant riot-inducing samples urging you to “criticize and attack the police!” get the job done just fine here without becoming a bore.
Overall a very well rounded release, just about every sub-genre of hardcore is represented here, a little something for every occasion. Highly recommended…. If you can find it, only 500 copies were pressed along with the rest of the Surgeon16 catalogue, shame that.

Network23 - 19-Jul-04 07:05 PM
Incidentally, Network23 is also the name of the ominous multi-national television network conglomerate in the late 80's cult cyberpunk TV series Max Headroom. An ironic yet somehow fitting namesake for this legendary label of underground resistance.

Lamia Is - Flesharvest - 25-Apr-04 02:19 PM
dark bass drones, distant muffled industrial/mechanical poundings, disembodied voices talking about demonic possesion, and Eraserhead samples make for one of the most disturbing and unsettling slabs of wax I have heard for quite some time. do not listen to alone!

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