V/A - Eskimo

[Guest AlexG]

i really like tracks 1, 8, 9, but the rest is not so good...6/10

[Guest malbat23[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk]

V/A - Eskimo

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Eskimo

Label: Resonoise

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. Sinister Funk : Circle Of Flames

02. Igneous Sauria : Stretching Lizards

03. Peace Data : Peace Depth

04. LOA : Moriarti

05. Mekano : The Flipside Of Puu-Pu

06. Bonky : Short Wave

07. Magus : Hypnosis (Igneous Sauria Rmx)

08. Shakta : Something Happened

09. Shakta And Cosmosis : Anatomic Maneuver

 

Review:

 

'Enjoy The Noise!' it says inside the cover of this

CD, the first release in London by the expatriate

Russian posse,and I think you might. One of the few

recent albums that for me seems to sum up the feel of

anarchic underground parties, it provides a

spontaneous off-your-face feeling that sounds like it

might have been produced & mixed live {tho'it's not a

mix CD.]

Tr 1 sets the tone for what follows,with its

constipated elephant noises and a Koxbox-type feel.I'm

not sure whether this the same Sinister Funk as on

SST.{?}Tr 2 straightens itself out after several false

starts and twitchy jerky breakbeats before rocking on

with some advice about medication from South Park.

Then we plunge via a throbbing minimal bassline into

Tr3 & what might be heard as a sonic sheetmetal

tearing competition! Next, LOA continue the pounding &

throw in some choppy bursts of guitar, a weird robotic

voice and some kind of naive folk melody.This is

getting stranger & wilder by the minute.

Tr 5 starts all industrial then gets funky with

snatches of bass guitar{?}followed by Bonky who get

straight on with the mayhem with Tr 6 which means

lowdown dirty business from the start, sounds rattling

and firing at you non-stop. Not for the

faint-hearted!{check out the Bonky/Fungus Of Light CD

for more}.Entering the airy departure lounge of a

spacestation at the beginning of Tr 7 leads to an

increasingly menacing area as you proceed out into the

dark vacuum.

Finally the coup de grace is delivered to your brain

by the last two tunes by artists who need no

introduction, Tr 8 hitting in a harder style than

maybe expected from Mr Taylor and is well chosen so as

to fit in with the others here.Chunky ,funky & moody

,it doesn't disappoint. Nor does the last track ;with

a strong bassline & percussion ,it rounds off this

album with a squelchy, more melodic and spacy finale.

Superb.If you like it smooth and lightweight look

elsewhere,but for me this sums up some special moments

at the peak of the night. Buy it!

[Guest Dandoo Forest]

Igneous Sauria&Peace Data kicks ass!

the rest are nice also

[Guest secchinatto]

Yes the best tracks are: 1,8,9...

[Anoebis]

The Peace Data song is one of the best minimalistic songs EVER!! This cd is

full with harsh, dark and uplifting minimalistic Trance... Only the last two

songs (8,9)are not uplifting at all and rather bad in my opinion!! 8/10 Bom

Shankar

[Guest structurerecords[at]tulip[dot]uk]

The peace data track is quit good. The bonky and Mekano track is really bad.

Give this record 3,5/10.

 

(But you can´t take away the underground/chaos fellin on this rec.)