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An incongruent opener, Null to Zero features warbling old theatre-style movietones flecked with static. A piercingly theremin-like warble plays lead in parts of Melodramatic System Error (5:30); softly wafting notes are battered by tiny percussive shrapnel. Individual notes lasting only a fraction of a second give Hydro : Porto a particularly fragmentized feel, though with a perky meter.
The practically microscopic particles of Beige : 103 are backed by a glitchy syncopation. A repetitive vocal riff tops Runkelrübe blau, under which a slow sizzle burns. Impeccable microfunk Beige 04/35/08 counterpoints bass pulsations with synth and cymbal, glinting like the crisp points of oversharpened pixels.
From a faltering beginning, The Great Krautrock Swindle picks up a spy-movie groove with atonal synth leads and slappy e-drums attacking from various angles; the unpolished whistling and humming is misdirecting, though kind of fun.
Mellower yet still dizzying, zubehört! sports a bubbly bass, exploratory lounge-style keys and poppy percussion. Upbeat, tinny, wavering and wiggly are a few words to describe the psychedelic patterns of Jamaika Fraktal.
Busting out Freaky Fuckin' Windows (1:01) releases spastically shattered samples strewn about in roughly rhythmic shards.
Bassy-heavy hyperactivity and gritty drumsounds prop up 12 A prt.07-2 to be smeared with twisted synth leads and multi-toned squawks of seemingly random notes.
Smooth draperies of organ-tones backed by muted horn blares put repro 01/14/04 in a sort of a neo-Motown mood of meltingly wacked-out urban jazziness, carried seamlessly on into 18 Inch Black., with more of a swagger.
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