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SYNTHESIS Issue #5

 

REVIEWS


Suck-Taste-Spit (on Dynamica) ---- U.S. release

This album showcases three bands who record for the industrial dance label Dynamica (an offshoot of the super excellent Machinery label!), and it's no accident that these particular artists have landed here together as each uses the industrial/ heavy-metal crossover sound....to VERY LOUD effect. Basically this is a collection of tracks previously released on EPs, and range across the spectrum from almost-pure metal to almost-pure dance -- as illustrated by cuts #3 and #4 from Cubanate for example, while their "Joy" mixes make for a great club-stomping middle ground. The normally very metal-sounding Think About Mutation (don't let their "Hellraver" album title fool you!) actually get the most radical dance treatment with three reworkings of "Motorrazor" and the very hot "Move 'N House". The third band Oomph! are the closest to the genuine metal sound throughout this collection but still very good, and they also pack a punch on the dancefloor with "Me Inside You". So, if you like this style or you're looking to get started on it, then you need look no further because it really doesn't get any better than this.... Obviously this should be a top-level priority for all industrial DJs.

_1 ) Cubanate - Joy
_2 ) Cubanate - Joy (Extended Remix)
_3 ) Cubanate - Exultation
_4 ) Cubanate - Skeletal (Electro Mix)
_5 ) Think About Mutatation - Motorrazor
_6 ) Think About Mutatation - Razorhaus (Remix - The Syndicate/Frankfurt)
_7 ) Think About Mutatation - Razorburn (Remix - DJ Bent!/NYC)
_8 ) Think About Mutatation - Motorrazor (Digital HC Remix - Alec Empire/ATR)
_9 ) Think About Mutatation - River
10 ) Think About Mutatation - Move 'N House
11 ) Oomph! - Ice Coffin
12 ) Oomph! - Asshole
13 ) Oomph! - A.L.I.V.E.
14 ) Oomph! - Me Inside You
15 ) Oomph! - Suck, Taste, Spit (Milk Mix)