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As if King Crimson wasn't weird enough to begin with, now we've got this smoker of a CD. It's an electronic experiment done by Pat Mastelotto, KC's drummer/sampler extraordinare, and mixer/techno-wizard Bill Munyon. It takes instrumental tracks and a few spoken words from shows & rehearsals by Crim and its ProjeKct fractals - Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Adrian Belew and Trey Gunn are all over the place in bits and pieces (there are even three whole notes from David Byrne) - all spliced and diced together into this intriguing new goop. Listening is like having your radio possessed by a little imp with ADD who changes & combines random stations at every little whim. It can be hard to listen to this kind of thing for the whole hour all at once, but I find it works great in the car for 5- or 10-minute stretches at a time.

Needless to say, it's a lot more esoteric than your average techno album and it'll probably only appeal to a subset of Crimson fans. If you're particularly drawn to the electro-jazz approach of the ProjeKcts and want something in an even more far-out vein, you should be all over this one (for reference, it most resembles the freakier aspects of P3 and PX). There's a lot more of the random shift/cut-n-paste approach going into this, and since the drums are the only 'live' element, it's missing the spontaneity and interaction that go into a collective improvisation. But it's never less than fascinating because of the sheer wackiness of everything we hear, not to mention the fold-out poster of caricature artwork, which is a real hoot.

If you're not familiar with current-day Crimson, I'd recommend starting with one of their discs first. And if you're curious what might come from the fringes of a group already pretty fringy, this'll give your synapses reasons to grow new pathways (if your speakers don't short out first). Wild, nutty and completely unique.

¿A quíen pertenece este disco?. En la carátula biene firmado por
Bpm&M, pero todo hace pensar en King Crimson. En efecto, se trata de una serie de remezclas realizadas por Pat Masteloto (actual batería del grupo). Lo que ocurre es que, rara vez, identificamos ningún tema en concreto. Para hacerse una idea suena como uno de los Projekts pasados por la discoteca. El resultado es bastante aceptable y gustará a los que disfrutaron con los projekts. Eso sí, si quereis comprarlo ir directamente a PapeBear Records o comprarlo a través de discipline: os costará la mitad.

Attention! I have closely heard this disc! It not one of King Crimson projeKcts. It is only techno-sampled dust. Not recommended for KC funs (for me). Sorry.