Project: Human by Dieselboy

I really like drum and bass now. And I really like Dieselboy’s stuff. My exposure to this music is limited to only Dieselboy and couple of other “D” artists: DJ DB and DJ Dara. I just got into Dieselboy’s compilation mixes with the previous album, The 6ixth Session, a maddeningly ominous pystrance mix that sounded alien as well as “Aliens” in a space monster sort of way. It also reminded me of the cold synthesized sounds of various classic techno singles of the early 90s before the egos and corporate bandwagon types busted out mainstream makeovers. Well, from what I know so far Project: Human shifts to more of the hip hop beats-on-speed that is the classic “drum and bass” sound rather than pystrance. There’s some mean rapping and a theatrical trailer thing going on in the beginning. However its still a mean machine that feeds my heavy metal side. Hard drums, hard bass, pulsating and grooving, stopping and stuttering, on and on and on - the result hypnotizes like pipe on cobra - the trance is in the rhythm - like the incessant pounding in Charlie Parker’s jazz or the patterns that just reverberates from a Meshuggah album. Here its basically drums and bass like the genre is named. Besides that, Dieselboy uses songs that sprinkle elements one after the other to keep things in perspective. Its fleeting. It just pushes forward in an unrelenting assault one after the other. No set up. No intros or transitions. You have to be a little crazy to embrace this whole thing from start to finish. I think perhaps the album is a bit too long to maintain this intensity and some songs towards the end are lacking compared to the beginning. But the night is long and the party doesn’t just stop for you!

Score 3.5/5

by Alzn