'76
is back with a Double vinyl advance promo album, so no track
names in this review just numbers!
Vinyl
1 :
Track
1 opens with a 8 bit beep melody which soons has a truckload
of mashed up beats crashing the party, and sprinkling their
fuzzy selves all over the gaf, whilst a eye melting electric
xylophone face smiles above your head and tries to lick
you with its pixel tongue...RUN RUN RUN. We are soon into
track 2 and instantly attacked by a stuttering beatbox wrapped
in 2d barbed wire which is attempting to escape from its
metal jacket in anyway possible..be careful. Light drenched
melodies fill the room, as an acid crunch synth game soundtrack
takes control, and with a quick ambush, force feeds you
an amiga 1200. Yum fucking yum, this one will bring down
the room.
Track
3 is a secret message from the depths of your very first
console, that quickly develops into a structured beat attack
with sugar on top, and a big wily cloudlike bass that has
you spinning around like a lunatic, whilst track four has
you walking along the rainbow road in mario kart whilst
scattering minature traps to try and catch toads children.
Flip it.
Track
5 is what its all about. A huge crunch laden fuzz beat and
static sheet of audio greatness envelops you in the blink
of a small robotic eye, whilst the ambient distant waddles
towards you in an evil attempt to take you over to the marshmallow
side and drain all the milk from head to make a lovery afternoon
snack...or something like that.
Numero 6 smashes in without any introduction with a wood
snapping and processing crack beat, that isnt here to mess
about. Lazer snaps and sky tearing jack attacks spin out
of control like remote control helicopters out of power,
whilst a building levelling acid mashup blasts your body
to smithereens as if you were made out of wafer, insane
stuff but fuck good. Track 7 echoes itself into oblivion
with a very gradual bassline that you know is going to explode
any second now. The stack of beats drop into formation and
create a spark crazy light show, whilst voices are heard
in the melee but are hard to make out as you are stagger
around under the audio influence that has flooded all and
every one of your pours. Check it.
Vinyl
2 :
Track
8 has flash gordon stylings which have you looking over
your shoulder for a hot hail attack, but its no hail you
get, its a smash flip rotate bassline with a slicing beat
pattern that launches you deep into the thick dark soup
surrounding the moon and explodes a grenade inside your
stomach. Evil bastaads. Track 10 then has you deep within
a patrially rendered world as a ever growing dark shadow
of chaos is built layer by layer behind your head without
you even knowing. Pulsing bass strikes like a heartbeat
on a treadmill made of landines, slide through the sky and
grow ever quieter and quieter...and you drop into track
11.
This one is the soundtrack to a tiddlywinks day out with
a 9 volt battery inside a photocopier which is strapped
on the wing of a jumbo jet, that is carved out of electric
on a vertical death dive into the industrial heart of osaka.
Id take a listen if I was you.
Mission
13 starts off with a playful slice of intelligence bouncing
around you like its full of flies until its older brother
starts shouting from down the corridor in a fat mashed acid
alarm siren, which knocks you off your tiny feet and down
a hidden ventilation shaft into some kind of trash compactor.
I think we will need to get this one shut down. Track 16
rips apart the european space station with its huge power
flooded arm in a crazed attempt to break through the atmopshere
of earth, and take its revenge on the inhabitants, time
to get out of here I think. Maybe its not as bad as it seems,
as this manic machine of lunacy gets pounded by a passing
field of asteroids and all the cosmonauts/astronatus ride
its lifeless ceramic tiled ass back to safety. Awesome.
76 once again gives us four killer sides of vinyl that reek
of classic SKAM. If you pass on this one, you are mentally
insane, and need your harddrive changed.
Double
recommended.
Sam
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