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Seven Steps of Nervousness

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finally i own this awesome album and replace my md copy of it. it is very hard to get this album in europe as well as finding any good information about NCC in the WWW, as far as i know.

after the first listen to the whole album i just liked a few tracks of this cd, e.g. Abstract Relations: this track blew my brain away. it's a very demanding and weired killer-song. one of my all time favourites. but i also had some problems with some songs of this album because they were pretty much too syntie for my taste. i'm not a big fan of VNV Nation and all the likes, so i had problems with some basslines and the voice. maybe it was sort of too clean. but even these songs grew in me after a while. what can i say: i like the whole album. it's a very ambitous multi-layered album. i like the voice now, which is sometimes distorted sometimes natural. the synth-sounds are amazing. a lot of tempo changes, which is surprising while listening. i think this album is very experimental in relation to the average, mainstream ebm or syntie stuff. you have to listen to this cd on headphones!

Ok, this is the first review ive ever written on here, so bear with me, but this album truly warrants my expert review. i first heard the title track '7 Seven steps of nervousness' in a club about 3 years, and was hooked on it immediately. i would request the song be played every chance i got. Finally i found the CD here on amazon and had to get it, based off how great the title track is alone. I was not disappointed in the least. There is some strange vocals here, but not too much to distract you from the killer beats. They mix a good amount of classical feel with synthpop effects and hard hitting drum & bass. I recomend this to any electronic fan who knows good music when they here it.

NCC is not your average synth/electro project. I just re-ordered it to replace my original copy. The beats are sporatic but oddly fitting, the vocals powerful. This is a wonderful, almost emotional experience to listen to. If you dig industrial/ebm/synthpop and looking for something that isin't of the "norm" but a great listen, this is for you.

I've had this album for a few years, and I sometimes forget how good it is. The sound is layered and varied, yet the songs retain a sense of spontaneity. Part of the album's strength is that it never stays with one idea too long--even within the same song. It embraces the formulas of its predecessors (there's even the early nineties obligatory Borg samples) yet it seems more like industrial trying to evolve into something new. The electro-industrial genre can sound so stale, but these kids went into their music with the vim and vigor of youth and the result is surprising. Their attention deficit will annoy some listeners, but I think some of their instincts are right on, and the album is kind of charming because of it.

Their record label folded right after they put the album out and as far as I can tell they've been silent ever since. Too bad. I'd like to hear them struggle to harness all this energy and mature it into something.