26.11.04

Misc. - Crunch time - Sender send042cd

According to People That Know, this is an example of tech-house. I think I'd be inclined to call it 'a surly mob of square-waves fighting in a sack' and dismiss it as just more of that technological music that they churn out by the lorryload in big factories along the Ruhr valley. However, one of the SIDStations is unexpectedly possessed by the spirit of Grand Funk Railroad and it all goes horribly right. There are echoes of fine old New York electro-funk and Man-Machine era Kraftwerk nailed to huge basslines that rumble along in the style of tanks the size of small villages while happy 'blork' noises that were last seen on old Joey Beltram records burble cheerfully in the background. The overall impression is that of a crowd of small robots gleefully jumping up and down on a pile of rusty corrugated iron.

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