Customer Reviews

Wireless

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This is what techno should be: the soundtrack to a sci-fi thriller unfolding in a dark cityscape surging with the crisscrossing veins of chemical headlights and dotted with the pulse-glow of high-rise office buildings that host secret rendezvous.

I'm a white boy: I can't dance. But this CD makes me want to shake my middle-class Anglo butt. Thank you, Luke Slater.

I can't believe it took me four years to discover this gem...Wireless delivers the goods, many times over. From first go, Tracks 1 thru to 13 kept me pinned to the speakers. The theme here is TEXTURE: layer upon layer of awesome sounds. Stomping breaks, electro, tech, call it what you will -- fans of good electronica shouldn't go without this. If you're in doubt, let this review be the one that tips you over.

Luke Slater turns out a gritty edged ,bass infested electronica album, flirting with the industrial sound by driving a slamming beat that will get a dead nun dancing. Interspersed with digitally altered voices and looping sound effects, Luke has created a killer with this one. I defy you to sit still while listening to it. Hard and heavy style. Enjoy!

This CD is hard. I heard Coldcut and Meat-Beat-Manifesto undertones running right through the music. Its good but I prefer Luke Slater's earlier music (7th Heaven). Definitely one for Class-A's.

I was disappointed by my first spin of this disc. I really didn't give it a chance, my first impression was set by the cheesy 80's blah of track two "Sum Ton Tin". My second spin didn't get me much farther. Yep, you guessed it, my third spin was a ...It's interesting. This is noise music; or maybe "techno-noise-core". It has two or three unfortunate tracks, otherwise very well crafted noise. Music to excercise hard to, or even to zone out with. Very Buzzy and dense. Once you get accustomed to the textuaral rhythms they become highly addictive and energizing. Almost like updated versions of Revolting Cocks and Skinny Puppy's instrumental tracks. Give it a chance if interested in noise, vintage techno/synths, and 80's industrial. Cool stuff.

Luke Slater, once a real techno warrior, delivers with Wireless fine piece of hip-hop-influenced tracks. Electro and big beat are also keywords here - but not in commercial sense. Music is about the change and with Luke's newst you can perceive it.

Wow, what happened here. Seriously. Slater's the artist who dropped Freek Funk back in '97, one of the sharper albums of the year and a meaty ride through funk-fueled techno. Wireless instead culls strong influences from electro and breakbeat, and a dose of odd effects for good measure; that's all well and good, unless your breaks sound instantly dated ("Sheer Five Five" plays like an 80's rap track) and the intricate rhythms take a step backward.

The bigger surprise lies in the two big club successes, mixes of "Body Freefall" and "All Exhale," were heavily pushed by DJ's, and it's safe to say serious reworking went on to make them into hits. "Freefall" in particular lies just this side of techno gabba.

Not that there aren't cuts included here that show Luke Slater knows how to work the equipment; whether you have the patience to wade through to find them is another matter.