- Battle of the Future Buddhas - Demonizer - Boom (Netherlands) ()
Review posted by admin on 4th Aug, 2002
Always one of the best named artists out there – if it was the name of a videogame, it would be good; if it was the name of a japanese B-movie, it would be good – Battle of the Future Buddhas have laid down a slightly awkward album of trance biscuits with the emphasis on pulsing rhythms, pounding kicks, and purring basslines. 50,000cc is a techno nightmare minimalia that threatens to go Euro, a muted way to kick off the album but full of desolation and the sort of nightmare scenarios these guys evidently like. Inverse Vertigo Syndrome’s 16th-mental bassline will have things flying out your ears, while eerie deep space sounds build in the background, the peak being a fluid, pass-the-dramamine lysergic meltdown. Demonizer has a harsh frontend with crashing rhythms and metallic snares. Somehow the Buddhas have managed to layer what sounds like a completely different tune in the background, almost as though you feel you’re hearing two songs coming from different rooms. Primetimeslime has that familiar shuffley quantize, and just about avoids being completely generic and annoying by using some nice dubby textures. Hippy Crack Panic is an impossibly fast, and impossibly empty masher that would have been brilliant if only it was released in 1997. Being 2002, this is likely to set less pulses racing than folks racing to the bar. Hubba Bubba Rub-A-Dub is proggy and has those techno and dub stabs over an offset bassline. Melodies crawl out from the mix, fly around the room, and tickle the parts other tunes can’t reach. It’s good stuff, but the decidedly 2-D production won’t make it stand up against your more accomplished Atmosses or Son Kites. Suspend all linguistic analysis of track names as Scooby Doo Meets The Fluff Monster slinks in. Starts out street-savvy electro-that’s-up-to-something, prefect music to catburgle to if you’re into scaling walls wearing black. With that in mind, the 16th monotone bassline and 4-4 that slides in is initially exciting, until they then proceed to turn it into something sounding exactly like everything else on the album. All in all, it’s a disappointing release let down by its flat production. There are some good ideas here, the problem lies in the execution. You’re left with the feeling that Battle of The Future Buddhas are capable of a lot more.
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Review Date: 4th Aug, 2002
Review Source: Psytrance Reviews
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