Zombie Zombie - Plays John Carpenter (Living Tapes - 2011)

Another tape that first was released on cd. On this one there are four interpretations of the music score works of John Carpenter by Zombie Zombie. Not to difficult to make up from the name of the release, is it?

It completely sounds like those soundtracks for 80's series and movies like Knight Rider, Miami Vice or Beverly Hills Cop. Real bass-driven tracks with a little cheesy sounding leads upon it and topped of with preset sounding drum rhythms.

All songs do have a great drive to them, which keeps you nodding your head. Especially 'Assault On Precinct 13' sounds better the original. Closely followed by the 'Halloween' and 'The Bank Robbery' theme. Only the original 'The Thing' theme is slightly better than the one made by Zombie Zombie.

All in all a great interpretation of the works of one of my favorite directors. Going to watch Christine again, i guess.......

4/5

ÐOSE - PLUNGE (Clan Destine Records - 2011)

This cassette is one of the small pearls in the sea of music. Slow darkwave-like guitar, bass and drum, depp slightly distorted vocals and despressing to complete it.


Not much to say about it actually, you just have to plunge right in yourself.

5/5 Blips!

P.S. Comes with a very nice poster!

Raison D'être - Prospectus I [re-mixed] (Ravenheart - 2005)

A vacation in 2005. Being in the South of South-Limburg, a place called Mesch (yep, almost the same as the synthpop band). Going through the new CD section in Orkus Magazine, I stumpled upon a CD from Sanctum on Cold Meat Industry. Reading the description, I realized I had to have this! The description was about the CD being one of the best industrial albums of that year.

How wrong could I have been! At that moment I thought Mesh was industrial :) And after listening to a sample of Let's Eat, I thought I would never ever buy horrible music like that. How could they call that Industrial? But slowly my musical taste changed: from synthpop to rhythmic industrial to industrial to noise etc. etc. etc.., Oops! Can't go any further than noise.

So along the way the review in Orkus came to mind again. I took my changes and bought the CD. This time I was overwhelmed by structures and singing in the release. I now think it is one of the best albums ever made! The era of Cold Meat Industry Collecting has begun.

That automatically brings you to Raison Dêtre (reason for existence), who has more than 10 releases on the label. The first one being Prospectus I. Here I have the cassette on Ravenheart of the re-mixed version.

The 9 tracks are mostly build around orchestral and vocal loops. This works very well for a time, but to the end of the cassette it is beginning to get a bit boring and predictable. The songs on themselves really stand out it is just a bit of the same everytime.

For having fond memories of that vacation, CMI and the other works of Peter is gets:

4/5 blips