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After the fifth & sixth Interbreeding volumes, which were released as seperate albums (albeit simultaneously) this seventh collection is again a double although each one has it's own title which makes life rather confusing, sticking to plain old disc one & two would have made things much simpler! Still, for discovering new music this latest comp still does the business with plenty to discover as the artists here are mainly up & coming talents, apart from Das Ich, whose remix of "Uterus" is so dancey I had to check it really was them (it's only credited as a remix in small letters in the inner sleevenotes) &, to a lesser extent, Implant, who are remixed here by Hungry Lucy. While I'm sure such relative unknowns as Morticians, Administrative Punishment, Schattenschlag & XP8 could have held their own if their original work & not remixes had been used (although the reasoning behind letting T3chnophobia remix Syrian is easy to fathom & BAK XIII's mix of Grandchaos' "Dream Factory" is well worthwhile) there's plenty of high-quality original here by such talents as Alien Produkt, improving on their debut album by some margin, Supreme Court's hard EBM, an ultra-danceable techno/trance offering from the criminally underrated Negative Format, a promising slice of hard EBM from Derma-Tek along with new tracks from Neikka RPM & Vigilante, whose hard industrial rock shows KMFDM et al how it's done while the old skool EBM sound is ably represented by Severe Illusion & Building 332. Also worthy of mention are Terror Punk Syndicate (an odd name in that their sound isn't particularly punky), Synaptic Defect, Brainclaw Xentrifuge's hard hitting 'hellektro' & Estonia's finest, Cyclone-B. After this sonic overload, Tristraum's tuneful synthpop comes as quite a surprise, God Project's ministrations doing little to change the overall feel of the track but it's not an unpleasant surprise & the variety it brings is no bad thing, either. Needless to say, a review of this size cannot really go into too much detail but it can at least give you some idea of what the curious listener (& that applies to all of you, I hope) will find. Satisfy that curiosity & you're in for the time of your life! |
