Shizuo Vs Shizor

Shizuo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 1997)
• Original Release Date: August 26, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Grand Royal Records
• ASIN: B000001X3O
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,391 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars trashy, January 14, 2000

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PJ (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shizuo Vs Shizor (Audio CD)

I love this album. I played it for my epileptic grandma and she had a seizure.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic., February 17, 2005

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crusher (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shizuo Vs Shizor (Audio CD)

Shizuo was the most brilliant of all the DHR artists, and that's saying a lot.

His music is not noise. It is a reductionist take on a variety of musical genres - most obviously hardcore techno but also punk, new wave, no wave, hip hop, industrial, jungle and musique concrete. Unlike more obvious artists who Make It Known that they're Eclectic, Shizuo subtley shifts from dancehall djungle to percussive blownout static to a funky Contortions-esque beat with childlike enthusiasm. Hardly the trainwreck that it sounds like, Shizuo finds common rhythms and traits from disparate sources and assembles them in a most natural way.

He can make an "accessible" track like "Sweat" that makes A-list indie stars cream in their pants. But when he goes off the deep end, he loses their endorsement, and that's fine. His DNA is more valuable than the combined gene pool of all leftfield American IDM producers to date. That he's German and makes *gratifying* beats is probably why people aren't talking about him... but rather, boring and predictably quirky artists like Kid 606.

That and his sonic association with the "political" and verbose Atari Teenage Riot prevents Wire-magazine-worshipping "music intellectuals" from identifying with someone who might actually get laid. IMHO, I can see Shizuo getting laid plenty.

Life after "Shizuo vs. Shizor" is way better than life before it. Someday this disc will be pulled from obscurity and recognized as it should be - the blueprint for post-punk (in attitude, at least), aggressive yet populist electronic music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sonically impressive, January 24, 2003

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dani (mtl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shizuo Vs Shizor (Audio CD)

Its rare to find an album that ages so well in elctronic music. I dont like atari teenage riot but find alec ampire somethimes pleasing...however this record is so imaginative an noisy its worth to buy. It has suprises waiting at each 10 sec.