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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (4 ratings)

Poo - Fluorescent - 21-Feb-08 11:29 AM
A superb album of dark electronics, drone and ambience. What I find particularly effective about it is the manner in which they get the whole thing to sound very organic, like a murky electronic swamp. Some of the repeated motifs for example sound as if they could be frog calls or some kind of animal or insect noise, without actually being that. So it somehow finds a really efficient balance between organic textures and electronic/industrial sounds.

Streets, The - Don't Mug Yourself - 29-Dec-07 08:16 AM
The high contrast mix takes the beat from andy cs bodyrock, crossing it with the streets sample, and a seriously heavy dub bassline. The result is a track which is better than either the original streets track or bodyrock. I mean bodyrock is interesting in that it uses a totally different beat to the normal 3 or 4 pattern variations used in uk drum & bass, here you get the same beat, but instead of the catchy but kinda irritating bassline of bodyrock, you get a properly cool deep bassline which is more classic-jungle sounding. As far as d circa 2002 goes this is about as good as it gets. Its interesting what the other reviewer mentions about the bassline melody, mark "ruff" ryder did basically the same thing on the uk garage tune "joy".

Desert Sessions, The - Vol VII. Gypsy Marches & Vol VIII. Can't You See Under My Thumb? There You Are - 22-Sep-07 07:54 AM
A small piece of trivia about this: the backing track on the song "Covousier" is in fact one of the demo preset loops found on the Roland MC-505 Groovebox. I think this is quite funny in its lazyness, but since vol. 7&8 is such a good record and is in fact some of Josh Hommes finest work outside of Kyuss, I think we let them off for this scandolous piece of "song-taking", provided they promise to make their own cheesy backing track next time.

Bug, The - Pressure - 09-Sep-07 03:13 PM
I love this, definitely The Bugs best work to date. It flows well as an album, there are no weak tracks. It works so well partly because there is a very nice balance between the hard-as-nails ragga shakedowns of tracks like "Killer" and "F*ck Y-Self", and the deeper/slightly more chilled tracks such as "Living Dub", not to mention the soaring "Superbird" which takes you somewhere else entirely. The tougher tracks will grab and shake you, make no mistake - but for those who know it is all about "Night Steppa" and "Theif Of Dreams" featuring Roger Robinson on vocals. These tracks are so deep, and yet also so heavy, and it elevates Pressure to one of my top albums of all time. Fans of Kode9/Spaceape, Soundmurderer, Ambush records etc. should check this release. The Razor X lp is not as good as this, but still worth a look if Pressure leaves you gagging for more of the tougher tracks.

Electric Wizard (2) - Come My Fanatics.... - 06-Sep-07 04:51 PM
Although the bonus 7" is not really important, here you have a good pressing of one of the finest albums ever (in my humble opinion). On this opus Electric Wizard struck a perfect balance between production, songs, and the space those songs the need to properly sludge-out, the indivisable wizard-ness and the mystical ambience which is never contrived and always mainlined to your Wizard gland. Electric Wizard glorify the object that they glorify to such an extent on this album that they become it. Kneel before the breath of God!

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