Noorglo - Hard body musicI was prepared for some powernoise (sorry for the rubbish terminology)
if truth be told when I approached this album and I don’t know why
considering the title of the disc.
For the first few numbers in all
honesty while being more than competent this didn’t over-engage me, far
from it as it did meander down the noise route and tampered with a bit
too much reverb on the production for my liking.
However, track four
‘Hyerarchy’ truly kicks this album off with vengeance; thumping
infectious beats smash everything into touch and suddenly the first
three tracks that preceded this have a form of clarity.
‘Hard Body
Music’ is an album for the long haul; this is actually an album aimed
at the underground dance market as ‘Bedroom Corrosion’ will attest with
its body moving electronic undercurrents that hail more to the German
‘Schranz’ scene than anything else; let it be known I love Schranz so
this got me on side immediately.
After a small route through broken
up electronics that tap into IDM territory disengaging the listener for
a few minutes we are back on the money with ‘Concrete Flesh’ that once
again heads off down the path of blistering club infused sensibilities
and whilst not being immensely challenging its just pure listening
pleasure and I can imagine this being the soundtrack that accompanies
many in their car heading out for the evening.
Amongst the
in-between oddities that crop up there are pure gems that rival any
hard club classics that occasionally fold in a mass of broken beats to
stir it all up a little, which probably just halts this act from being
lapped up by any commercial scene, coupling this with breakcore and
ambience in more reflective moments alongside Industrial, really steers
them away.
For an album that I just shrugged my shoulders at upon
first listen, I left more than content; yeah the production values
could do with being lifted a little but all in all this is a more than
exciting album as an overall piece of work and is genuinely engrossing
more often than not.
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