freak51 Posted July 24, 2001 Author Share Posted July 24, 2001 Kopfuss Resonator - Slotmachine Artist: Kopfuss Resonator Title: Slotmachine Label: Lecker Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 04'36" Never More Disco 02. 07'13" Monocain 03. 05'42" Salsa 04. 05'07" Give Her the Fuck 05. 07'57" Fruitloop 06. 08'26" Ganga (Holy Water) 07. 06'25" The Raven 08. 06'52" Monokiller 09. 07'07" Electric Rodeo 10. 05'18" Elektro Mechanic 11. 07'24" Bali Review: Welly-welly-welly-welly-well! First off, let's note that this CD won't make any new fans of Kopfuss Resonator. If you found their last one harsh, you're going to hate this one too. It's no skin off KR's nose - they're not what anyone would call crowd-pleasers! Having said that, this is an evolution of their style - where they would have gone to excess before, they no longer belabour anything, really (well, sometimes - see below). This is _not_ a CD for newcomers to electronic music. I think that to get the most of this CD, the listener should know a lot of early stuff (maybe 1983 onwards or so). If your first exposure was Infected Mushroom, you're going to have a much different trip than I did. OK, to business: the cover art. The last one I found excellent, this one is no disappointment. A metropolitan skyline blurred into the standard graphical .WAV file representation. Beautiful and functional! Track one: let's take this for what it is, a joke/experiment/warning: psy-* acts, don't even think of trying to incorporate porn-house influences. They take a disco riff and throw all kinds of tricks at it, frantic heroic measures to save the dying patient. The highly skilled treatment is very attractive, but the basic disco riff still sounds like tiresome worn-out MTV fodder. The message here is that if even this didn't save it, nothing will. Daft Punk, are you listening? Your day is done and Kopfuss Resonator shows why. After this weird start, they get serious with Monocain & Salsa. Both are sonic killers in bleeding-edge style, but maintaining the integrity of the old German hard-trance spirit. Track 4, more of the same pummelling vibe with an 80s Mantronix-ish voice saying 'Maaaannn, give her the fuck' every once and a while. It works. Fruitloop is more full-on hard techno, a 4AM track if there ever was one. Ganga is 2-3 years old, but still not only sounds excellent but fits perfectly in this spot. The Raven is a really ballsy effort, a dark funereal horror-movie-demonised voice reading Poe's 'The Raven' over top of some nice minimal psy-techno 135 BPM. Wicked! Then we get 'Monokiller' in they whip out their members and hey, theirs _are_ bigger than anyone's! It starts with the Alexander Delarge sample from 'Clockwork Orange' (above), then immediately goes full-on German hard techno/industrial for nearly seven minutes. Gruelling and a tiresome after about 3 minutes. It's a serious DJ tool. The next track, I wasn't keen on, older-style German hard techno/industrial again. Elektro Mechanic delivers a breakbeat Kraftwerk-ish vibe, but bordering on industrial again (french voice: 'techno - le jungle - audio'. Great work. Bali is an ordinary chill-out track, kind of works, like someone who's tried to teach himself to smile with pictures of smiles and a mirror. This last track is iffy. Some tracks on this work are not so hot, but one day years from now if you find yourself without rent money, and you have a shitpile of old techno/trance CDs from way back you have to sell, this one won't be the last one you part with but it will be in the last batch. A very good 8.5/10, with lots of no-shit-emergency tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomad Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 freak 51 ..thankyou , your review gave me more pleasure than slotmachine, however if you are as seasoned and knowledgeable as freak 51, you will appreciate more the complexities of this music.i found it too harsh and headache like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dandoo Forest Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 well ... im not a big fan of techno or tech-trance at all!!! i use to be but trax as aspirin from x-dream its a real killer forever about this cd for sure all of u psy fans dont buy it 10%psy 90%techno best track is number 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Seb Mullaert Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 Very nice record ..... and I like the new cover much more than the one before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Munky Business Corperation 2001 Posted July 27, 2001 Share Posted July 27, 2001 A great TECHNO record if u are into this kind of stuff. Nevertheless, GOA beach was never more far away and Hallucinogen's Twisted is apparantly not what psychedelic goatrance is still about. Jeez, how can a once great genre become so fucking influenced by cold and monotonous TECHNO which was the primary reason to go for the deep, warm and psychedelic melodies of GOA instead. Well, enjoy your oh so *sigh* progressive *sigh* RETRO trip to Detroit (1987/1988), I AM OUTTA HERE. Goodbye, an ex-GOAHEAD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cnt97 Posted July 27, 2001 Share Posted July 27, 2001 Wow... Its really techno... esp. Monokiller.. sounds like pure techno.. not tech-trance or anything ... Very fun music with a glimt in the eye.... nothing for outdoorparties.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 Innovation is the word...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unique303 Posted February 4, 2002 Share Posted February 4, 2002 Well, Kopfuss is a really thing to listen! No chance to skip it and I guess that the album cannot have a neutral opinion, yes, you will love it or hate it but it was made perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr. Tib.-e-e- Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Before they played "goa trance" in goa they played music from underground resistance, front 242 etc etc so you have to be open minded if u like "goa trance"...obviously. By the way, smashing record!! 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted May 25, 2002 Share Posted May 25, 2002 Hmm... interesting stuff here... whereas I guess most goaheads will call this "minimal psy" I'd rather call it "full-on techno"!! Here's why: minimal usually means there are not much sounds going on at the same time, but here there are TONS of sounds being throwed out to your ears every second!! And second, by "psy" usually one means a certain progression in the music (climaxes, different leads as the track unfolds...), whereas techno designates a more "loopish" monotonic unfolding. I've been following quite a few electronic music scenes during the years and I can tell you these guys were acid techno pioneers whay back when they were called Spect-r (check out the EP review section on this site). And this music is EXACTLY how new "acid"-techno (don't know why they still call it acid since there aren't any 303s anymore...) sounds like these days!! So for me, these guys always were and still are into acid techno... The moral of the story? Well, I'm not very keen of minimal psy, it sounds too "whimpy" for me, but this is great!! The harsh sounds and powerfull kick just seem to explode into your face!! Problem with techno is that it's not really designed to be listened to on an album, it's supposed to be mixed so you don't get too bored of the same loop over and over again... So these tracks would've been more effective if they were released on EP vinyls rather than as a big album on CDs. Anyway, as long as the music's good... Favorite tracks here: monocain, monokiller, ganga and elektro mechanic!! 8/10 for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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