From laerm Sent Tue, Apr 21st 1998, 06:03
From laerm Sent Tue, Apr 21st 1998, 06:03
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, NoZe Brotherhood wrote:
> Got a rather unusual cd in the station today. It's by a band called
> Cubanate and it's on Wax Trax/TVT. I threw it into the cd player and got
> a surprise. I think it is the first attempt at meshing industrial with
> drum n bass. Now, I know your thinking well what about Digital Hardcore?
> Well it doesn't sound like DHR cause there aren't any hardcore speed
> metal riffs or heavily distorted beats. Instead the vocals are distorted
> (much like Ministry/Skinny Puppy), but placed over rather straighforward
> drum n bass tracks. The result is pretty interesting and anyone that
> likes the two genres should definetly check it out.
as a big industrial dance/ebm fan, i will have to give my feelings on this
cd: marc heal (mr cubanate) should not be allowed within 30 feet of a
jungle beat. he destroyed the last cyber-tec album, imho. that said,
here's some more on industrial meets d'n'b (& more):
haujobb. haujobb. haujobb. these two germans are incredible. their
second album, _freeze frame reality_ from '96, showed them taking a more
techno/acid-y/experimental tack than their previous album (straightforward
skinny puppy-esque industrial). lots of squeslchy analogs and bleeps and
very harsh. but really good.
their third, _solutions for a small planet_ ('97), is an absolute
masterpiece. very experimental. some extremely distinct idm-ish elements:
some tracks have clicks and whirrs a la autechre, some have fax-y
ambience, all of them are awesome. now, i've always hated standard
industrial lyrics and that way-overused ogre distortion effect on the
voice, but the haujobb is all very clean, dry vox, often very understated
and calm, and with a cerebral kinda futuristic technological vision. very
good.
the accompanying remix album, _matrix_, i voted for as best idm album of
'97. it was the only completely original thing of the year, imho. all of
the remixes are quite radical deconstructions, most very d'n'b-esque in an
extremely experimental sense. no drill'n'bass or spunk jazz or fungle, but
really clean crisp irregular patterns. hard to describe. there's an
interesting kinda industrial house remix, a seefeel-y drone-y new track, a
soaring detroit-y mix, and some minimalist fun.
another worth checking out are x marks the pedwalk's last two albums. '96
brought us _meshwork_, full of lots of mingling 303 lines (reminiscent of
the better hardfloor stuff) and vocoders galore. good, but '97's
_drawback_ blew it away. this is industrial on the electro edge (except
faster) with some minor d'n'b patterns for entertainment. one or two
border trip-hop on the darkside, one pushes the house-y/techno-y/eurodance
gig (and is a guaranteed floor-filler), and one borders on enigma-esque
girl-y pap (program it out). some very interesting new vocoder ideas on
this one, too. the guy behind xmtp has a real good sense of space and
arrangement. and he kinda sounds like neil tennant sometimes.
both haujobb and xmtp are extremely well-produced, and you can find 'em
all on metropolis, based in the fine city of philadelphia; abroad it's
offbeat for haujobb and zoth omnog for xmtp.
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