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4.0 out of 5 stars
Old-school. You know the routine. Time to go., February 16, 2006
This review is from: Unleash (Audio CD)
This is a neat little EP, and I had the luck of seeing Soman perform live on the VNV Nation Formation Tour in the US. And damn if I don't listen to this EP more than I listen to all of VNV now.
This is old-school sounding electronica for industrial fans. The songs were tightly-knit, extremely well-produced, and as cool as hell. The beats are absolutely relentless, which each song containing MANY, MANY different drum sounds and motions. The mainstay of these songs is the 4x4 beat, but there is so much drum activity going on you won't care. Distortion abounds, and it is wonderful!
The synths follow their own little runs without too much progression, but enough to keep the songs on-track and interesting.
Many of the songs use build-ups and break-downs to great effect. This is music to play LOUD. It's exciting to listen to and it really gets your blood flowing. If Amazon ever posts samples, I wouldn't necessarily decide whether to buy based on them. You can hear Soman's work in remixes of "Chrome" by VNV Nation and "Shelter" by Combichrist. If this quality of songwriting gets put into album form, you be sure that it will be an album to remember.
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