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Low pulsations are spattered by cymbalic clatter, bassbeats and steam-vent hisses when
"Rondo" gets going, thanks to Ostinato's entrancing arrangements. After a bit of a slow start, "Hastick" from Stick catches its groove (albeit a fractured, grinding groove) which begins to grow on me.
Muted mutant jazz seeps from The Messenger vs. El Stick's "Moving staircases pt. 1", a very cool murky excursion.
Pounding, pounding, pounding "...to keep..." (8:13) from Cybermouse provides depth-charge bass runs, distorted voices and lots of general chaos. Not for the headache-prone. Initially quiet, "Delinquent dreams" (2:02) soon explodes with frenzied drumplay, but unlike its predecessor, at least Christophe de Bablon's piece is mercifully short.
A more amiable atmosphere waits as Mouse on Mars' "Peeling" bounces in on big bumpy beats and playfully mangled background sounds.
Reznicek's intriguing "Derivat Akurat 97" throbs along on a big, booming rhythm carrying itty-bitty electro-eccentricities with it.
Slurry mishmash "Bandage aromatique" by
Hematic Sunsets is perhaps trying too hard, or not hard enough; its layers of discombobulated noise and music make me dizzy. With "G-Monk", Flash Gordon Bluesband definitely is trying too hard, laying the aggressive weirdness on rather thickly... yikes!
Now somebody explain to me why that noise bugs me, but Jetzmann/Liquidski's ambiguously growling force fields and disembodied orchestral movements of "Der blaue Morpho" captivate me... no accounting for taste I suppose...
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