B.L. Underwood, Transmission One (Stone the Kubist) CD
So this is that "intelligent techno" then? It's trance mainly,
atmospheric trance though, which is not prepared merely to wallop 4-4
shades of shit out of the sequencer, instead taking the acid lines and
dropping them over interesting beats along with the kind of
FX that have garnered the AFX comparisons. Never content to leave
well-alone, you will not find B.L., whistle to lips, arms in the air,
dayglo hot-pants a-wiggling, pounding on a riff for five minutes to
create the kind of tedium that makes a breakdown a relief, rather it's
a change every four bars, if not less, and---to be honest---some of
these tracks are not even remotely uplifting. Take "Mezzo" for
example, a tense and edgy gloom-electro soundtrack. Or "Tectonic", a
real rocker. Two good reasons to get the album, then.
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