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Techno Animal | The Brotherhood of the Bomb
CD, Matador/Konkurrent
Tekst: Omar Muñoz-Cremers
Publicatiedatum: 22 oktober 2001
One of the great things about Techno Animal is that no American hip-hop has ever sounded this way. Probably most hardcore purists would even deny that the monstrous boogie on 'The Brotherhood of the Bomb' is part of hip-hop. For those of us who don't feel the need to defend the borders of genres and who, like Techno Animal, feel comfortable crossing those borders into other territories, there is some fun to be had. I must admit the band has intrigued me since their album 'Re-Entry' presented a strange hybrid of Miles voodoo funk, hip-hop, techno, and dark ambient. But I never really have loved Techno Animal; somehow they are too austere and oblique to really connect to the heart or the pleasure-centres of the brain. For their new album, Techno Animal have incorporated the voice into the sonic maelstrom, using a host of leftfield MCs like El-P, Vast, dälek, Toastie Taylor, Rubberoom, and Sonic Sum. It's a move that, for the most part, works like a charm; Techno Animal tracks at times have a tendency to wander, and filled with voices things do feel more focused. As is immediately made clear with opener 'Cruise Mode 101', an energetic dark-step hip-hop tune that is the best thing the band have produced this side of 'Demonoid'. For the most part it's the vocal tracks that fascinate on this album, at times sounding like The Transformers building a sound system on Jupiter for gigantic MC-battles, especially on the amazing piece of paranoid ragga tech step 'Piranha' and 'DC-10', featuring the maze-like skills of Vast and El-P temporarily being blown away by hurricanes of bass. The instrumentals tend to drag a bit, most of the tracks not really capable of revolutionizing the Techno Animal sound. Nice exceptions here are 'Monoscopic', a track that sounds like a Techno Animal dub of Basic Channel's crystal techno, all chimes and vapours circling around the beats, and 'Blood Money' is Wagner in a crack daze getting lost in the Bronx, another way of saying that it is quite heavy. Maybe not a loveable album, but in the right frame of mind and at full volume nothing less than an excellent new chapter in the unique world of Techno Animal.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/techno-animal/the-brotherhood-of-the-bomb/1152/
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