"V/A - Undergrounded"

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Artist: Various

Title: Undergrounded

Label: Quantum Satis Records

Date: January, 2014

 

01 - Ka-Sol - El Doktore (140 BPM)
02 - Zoon - Gate (Hada Remix) (144 BPM)
03 - Goch - Extemporary Devices (146 BPM)
04 - Schoiroideairis - Natural (148 BPM)
05 - Nirmanakayas - Deep Inside (147 BPM)
06 - Battle Of The Future Buddhas - Lacking It All (148 BPM)
07 - Grobians - Da Mind Twister (148 BPM)
08 - Taigan Sunset - Xmas Shoe Eater (148 BPM)
09 - Spirituz - Mind Warping Spirits (148 BPM)
10 - Cavedave - Bruced Lead (129 BPM)

And now for something completely different.

Dissonant sounds and dark journeys through a magic laden forest. That's the dream isn't it? Let's see what have we got here...Ka-Sol, yeah that track sounds like they handed in a rough draft, Gate is dreary wailing, but the Goch offering does it right. Dark and frightful it seems to strike the right balance between being terrifying and just putting a gun in your mouth.

The cat in the blender style of Deep Inside shows the outright contempt for the swift justice of PETA, and Buddhas devolved into an evil trance like state brimming with tortuous screams of agony. Otherwise known as a drive through Harlem after midnight. The Grobians (Google wanted to call them the Fabiens, just sayin') is a bubbly pool of monotony. But at least nobody died during it. Actually I cannot prove that. Probably nobody died.

Xmas Shoe Eater is my favorite due to its title of course, but also its funky swing and chuckling goblins. Liked Mind Warping Spirits also, some wicked fun. Lastly with the f*cking shocker of the week is some downtempo enter the dragon sh*t with Bruced Lead which would seem more appropriate on a Kaaya Project album than a forest compilation.

Taken as a whole it sounds like someone spiraling into a wicked depression. This could be the soundtrack that a disturbed individual would use when he fantasizes about mowing down soccer moms in the produce department of Food Lion. If you have the slightest mental issue or irregularity please give this a wide berth. That said there is creativity here. And that's why I continue to listen to the forest and the dark stuff in the hope that an artist nails it and creates something mindblowing.

Without making me want to eliminate the 10th grade of the local high school.

Free at Ektoplazm

Mdk

[Bill]

Was not crazy about this compilation at all. That said, to quote, "And that's why I continue to listen to the forest and the dark stuff in the hope that an artist nails it and creates something mindblowing." Well, Cavedave's "Bruce Lead" did that for me - supremely weird and wonderful! I'll gladly go through an entire compilation I don't enjoy at all to get at that one track that nails it.