Pneumatic Detach - Pareses Re:infected - REISSUED: Pareses Re:infected Reviews » The brand new remix disc from Pneumatic Detach "Pareses Re:infected" was an extremely pleasant surprise, in many ways. Pneumatic Detach's first release, on Frozen Empire Media has been sold out for some time, so my knowledge of them is limited to a few appearances on compilations. All I knew was that they were a rhythmic noise band, and their album was supposed to be pretty good. The music and variety of music on this disc really blew me away. Little did I suspect just how good this CD was going to be, despite having a great roster of remixers, including Scrap.edx, Kreptkrept, Iszoloscope, Antigen Shift and Symbiont, it far surpassed my expectations. The range of music incorporates aspects of ambient, idm, rhythmic noise, drill, break beat, power electronics and even a touch of ebm and old school 90s industrial. There is no way to specifically pin down the sound of Pneumatic Detach from this album, with each song being re-worked to incorporate whatever sound the remixer was going for. Instrumental tracks make up most of the cd, but vocals and samples are also added, and are more than welcome, giving the music a broader range than the great mass of rhythmic noise bands out there. In fact, using such a term as Rhythmic Noise may be deceptive to what their sound is, and so I think I will have to resort to user the border term, Industrial to describe them. Although the bands that I was expecting to do some great mixes succeeded, bands of which I knew little of and wasn't expecting anything from, more than succeeded, with incredible mixes from Detritus, C2, and AEC (battery cage). The packaging for the limited edition first run is also incredible, and was another surprise. Before it came in the mail, I had to put a image of the CD cover on TiK Distro website and found only a solid black jpg on the Hive Records site. I figured that they hadn't gotten around to scanning and uploading the image. But no, the album cover is black. Thoughts of 'This Is Spinal Tap' came to mind, but these were erased when I received a package of them in the mail. A solid black digi-pak in an anti-static bag is an amazing design, in my opinion. It just oozed with cool, making this CD seem more special to me. Rating: A Squid - Industrial Kollective . org In doing this review, I found myself asking what categorization this CD would fit into. It is indeed not the music I tend to listen to. Is it rhythmic noise? Ambient noise? IDM? Mellow in parts, and at other times crunchy? Industrial? Strictly speaking about the sound, ignoring any of the intention behind it, or the symbolism of the title or content, I must say I like the intensity of the rhythmic beats at many points on the CD. I find myself moving my head to the beat, jammin' in my seat, etc. And really, isn't this what it's all about? There is a great intensity supplied in frequently changing rhythmic structures that is so appealing to the ear. Samples are interspersed throughout and between the harsh, steady beats and layering of sounds. I think that one should not listen to parts of this CD with a pounding headache; it could be quite irritating. However, if you can get into the groove of the throbbing, quick tempo alternating with ambient soundscapes, then you will find yourself jamming too. What I also like about this CD is the pure industrial quality, not EBM, of the few songs that do have a song structure and lyrics. They bring me back to the old industrial days, before the influx of synthpop. There are even electric guitar metal-type riffs thrown into a few tracks. My favourite tracks are "Justin is a Stalker" and "Safe as Houses". Pareses Re:Infected is an enjoyable listen and offers a fun intensity of rhythm and noise that, despite the lack of melodic song structure overall, appealed much more to me than I ever expected it could. Who knows, Squid may get me hooked on this stuff yet. Rating: B- Morgana - Industrial Kollective . org Wow. I really like this CD from Hive. There are 3 or 4 tracks that just blew me away the first time I listened too it. Now never having heard any Pneumatic Detach other than these remixes I can't really say what they are like, but this CD is brilliant. There is an amazing blend of industrial styles represented here. Everything from Trance/Industrial sounds like the C2 mix, to pure noise tracks like the remix by Navicon Torture Technologies. There is something here for all fans of real industrial. Rating: B+ Prospero - Industrial Kollective . org For every doom merchant who proclaims that “rhythmic noise is dead” there seems to be a similar number of new acts springing up who confound these claims. Pneumatic Detach is one of those acts who, last year, with his debut release “Pa•Re•Ses” set the industrial scene alight with a new wave of enthusiasm for the genre. One year later and upcoming label Hive Records have kick-started their catalogue with “Pareses Re:Infected”: a collection of remixes of Pneumatic Detach by several of his contemporaries, along with one or two surprises along the way. Remixing rhythmic noise is a tricky business, with the remixers’ end-product often sounding no different to one of their own offerings, something that seems to have been purposefully avoided, thanks to proliferation of young artists present on this disc, indeed most of them even seem to have gone beyond the convention of merely taking one track to remix and incorporate sounds from several compositions in their tracks. There is a great variety of sounds and style present on “Pareses Re:Infected”, as will be evident from one quick glance at the list of remixers: Detritus, Vers, Starving Cell, Navicon Torture Technologies and Fragment King to name but a few. It is immediately obvious that this will not be 70 minutes of thumping 4/4 beats, like the remix discs of yore, although it certainly has its fair share of upbeat, club-friendly tracks; opener Safe as Houses from Grenadier provides some catchy breakbeat hooks with a gorgeous synthetic bass that sounds like it has come straight from the next Download album. It is C2, however, that steal the show for sheer power with their Untitled remix going full tilt with straight rhythms and huge, bass-heavy production. To further perplex us, the acts that we would expect floor-fillers from take an unexpected turn here, with Scrap.edx providing some dreamlike atmospheres and broken, stuttering beats that fully compliment the following track from Kreptkrept, who mangle the sounds of “Pa•Re•Ses” into a wild ragga-influenced noise beat. The most dramatic turn of pace must come from Iszoloscope though, who subdues a familiar Pneumatic beat beneath a howling storm of noise. It brings the track close to power electronics with its sheer, unrelenting severity until, at the last moment, cohesion is brought to the track by a strict kick-drum rhythm. Of course, salvation is never an option when Navicon Torture Technologies are involved and their remix here is no exception: a looping, churning decimation of its source materials, along with some additional texture from Leech’s vocals. Incessant in its brutality, even when a regular beat is brought into the mix, it only serves to heighten the tension and oppression of the track, before it subsides to a swamp of horrifically suggestive drips and organic squelches. In amongst all this noise and distortion, there are occasional oases of calm from such as artists as Detritus, who serves up a violently dynamic piece of beauty and filth in equal amounts as it cuts between gentle orchestral strains and juddering, broken beats. Antigen Shift, too, provides an atypically epic mix of lush, expansive atmospherics that render the underlying beats all the more grandiose and magisterial in a similar manner to the Dirty War mix from Vers. His brand of cut-up drum and bass [from very obvious Pneumatic Detach sources] coupled with some astute composition lends it an atmosphere that is wholly cinematic and austerely sumptuous as a result. While many of the remixes rest comfortably within the industrial genre, there are, of course, those who chose to take things a few steps further, such as Starving Cell with his glitch-ridden IDM MLP mix and Exclipsect’s electronic mash-up. For utter insanity, though, nothing surpasses the Fragment King mix, which was the cause of several astounded expletives on my part on first listen. Starting from a fairly regular groove, it suddenly collapses upon itself into a incomprehensible wall of polyrhythms and frantic processing – an utterly astounding way to finish an album. As with all compilations though, there are the inevitable tracks that fail to hit the mark, namely Symbiont’s anachronistic use of poorly-distorted vocals and clichéd EBM melodies, and AEC who sadly live up to their three-letter-acronym status. However, they are but two low points on what is otherwise a fantastic collection of pioneering and electrifying remixes. The CD is even further enhanced by the inclusion of a disturbingly surrealist video for Pneumatic Detach’s original Levanel track, a trend that will hopefully be continued in Hive’s output, alongside this high standard of music. Gavin Lees - Immanence . co . uk When I was first listening to this disc, my girlfriend came into the living room and asked if we could listen to something that sounded a little less like a pneumatic hammer. She didn't even know what was in the CD player, so I guess this band has picked the right name for itself – as well as made a name for itself. The original Pareses disc (on Frozen Empire Media) is long out-of-stock and out-of-print (at least at time of writing). I am not among the fortunate who owns a copy; perhaps it will be re-issued one day, and I can get it then. The limited-edition disc contains the video-montage Levanel and fourteen remixes from artists like Iszoloscope, Grenadier, Navicon Torture Technologies, Antigen Shift and ten others. Some of the remixes are a surprise for someone that expects nothing but harsh powernoise. The Grenadier remix of 'Safe as Houses' tosses around samples and drum grooves to create a danceable, drum-and-bass-ish tune that almost sounds like an early Meat Beat Manifesto track. Other remixes, notably the Navicon Torture Technologies remix 'Self Medication', takes the original track into harsher dimensions of feedback-laden, speaker-overdriving noise-rumblings. The most notable thing about the remixes is the fact that each remixer puts a great deal of their own individual sounds and styles into the new track. In some ways this disc listens more like a compilation than simply a new Pneumatic Detach disc. All the source material may have come from the mind and hands of Justin Brink. Brian Clarkson - Industrial natioN . com Texan Hive Records joins with success several and valid tonalities of the present industrial scene, with this ambitious compilation of remixes. Subject of this interesting product is the most appreciable album "Pa•re•ses" by Pneumatic Detach, released by Frozen Empire Media and out of print now. 14 trained artists alternate each other in disassembling and re-elaborating the precious frequencies of this opus. In "Safe As Houses" Granadier spreads breakcore throbbing and bodily lines. Scrap.edx distributes fairly dark-experimental tensions and grinding breaknoise incursions. Irreducible noise-escapes break cynically the neurotic systems of "Detached Pneumatic Rosicrucians Kreptkreptinized", oxyhydrogen flames edited by Kreptkrept. Intelligent spheres streak across the restless and dislocated atmospheres of "Allusion", there Detritus directs its cosmic excavators. NTT, in "Self Medication", reproduces powernoise deafening and scraping platforms; in a metallic chaos petrified shouts invade the reason. Hectic and incisive beats emitted from the obsessive programmings of C2 which makes "Untitled" one the most hypnotic tracks of the CD. Digital wars and twisted eruptions shock the structure of this irrepressible "mlp", breaknoise madnesses by Starving Cell. Then AEC points his armaments on EBM trajectories, "Justin Is a Stalker" is a perfect club-hit with Covenant-ish features. Iszoloscope in "Silent House" takes us back on the dusty surfaces of semi-colonized planets, dry noise executions, piercing drones, heavy rhythms and overburdened basses; exquisite performance! Dark-industrial visions pursued by Vers ("Dirty War") which displays fearless breaks and abrasive frequencies. The most eclectic of this gang couldn't lack, Exclipsect creates stabbing idm turbulences and huge noisescapes, no rules and no rest for this "No Grounds For Movement"! Imminent dark-powernoise turmoils and twisted rhythms among the rocky transmissions of Antigen Shift, "Flies Surround Me" corrodes and spurs on every standstill. Gloomy dark-industrial lashes and distorted voice bomb the hallucinations of "Burn In Hell" by Symbiont. Storm of dissonances and torbid rhythms in the last track called "Obduktionssal", Fragment King directs and aligns chaotic noise-industrial patterns. Lethal exchanges of toxic impulses. Francesco - Twilight-zone . it Hive Records does it again with another compelling release, this time with a limited edition run of Pneumatic Detach tracks. This intense industrial-noise release features a powerhouse of remixes by some of the most respected names in the genre, including Iszoloscope, Exclipsect, Antigen Shift and many others. This will prove to be another must-have CD for fans of noise, electro and industrial. "Safe as Houses [Grenadier remix]" makes a strong start to Pareses Re:infected. Thick synth, hard beats and crunchy tidbits are mingled with samples. I find myself playing this track most often and easily annoying the heck out of my neighbors at the volumes I play it. Evict me! I don't care! This song demands volume! I think it would be greatly received on many a dancefloor. "Miserable Existence [Scrap.edx remix]" lulls you into a false sense of calm with eerie melodies and soft rhythm. The glitchy beat intensifies, becoming more pronounced and complex. I like how the melody remains constant, become more of an atmospheric effect, giving the track and chilly feel. Towards its end though, it becomes a bit more chaotic with richer sounds- another great piece. A dose of something harsher and more intense on the ears is "Detached Pneumaniac Rosicrucians Kreptkreptinized [Kreptkrept remix]". Hmm, now that's a mouthful. Extremely heavy, industrialized and clamorous, this track threatens to shred your senses into metallic dust. A sharp and eerie introduction begins "Allusion [Detritus Remix]", but quickly slams into static rhythms and out into cold waves of haunting and syrupy atmospherics. The shift continues, rolling from one to the other, sometimes overlapping in between. It's as if an ultra vivid dream is being overtaken by a horrible nightmare. Proving to be a bit too much for my ears is "Self Medication [Navicon Torture Technologies Remix]". "Holy sh*t" is the phrase that comes to mind. Ultra harsh, static, whirring, whining, grinding, grating noise for a lengthy seven minutes and eleven seconds. It does change a bit as the track progresses, taking on a monotonous quality while the harsher sounds take a back seat to the more mechanical and blippy sounds, and gradually slips into silence. "Untitled [C2 remix]" is very intense, introducing the super brash beats of hard-techno. The beat seems to disintegrate somewhat, becoming more sporadic, but the drive continues as the piece fleshes itself out further and becomes wholly engrossing. This is definitely another serious dancefloor piece out for blood. Reminiscent of wind and whispers of a train through a tunnel, "MLP [Starving Cell remix]" slips in like a threatening storm, rapidly turning into a thunderous torrent of sound. "Justin is a Stalker [AEC remix]" (As a side note, AEC is better as Battery Cage) rings in sharply, but rounds itself out nicely with thick synth and deep rhythm. And, to totally throw you for a loop, there's actual vocals here! Carrying an industrial quality with noisy guitar, the track stands out as unique. Filling out the musical canvas nicely, the sound is large and alive. A rather tense atmosphere is quickly established in "Silent House [Iszoloscope remix]". Static rhythms set in, gradually adding in a variety of other percussive sounds, from metallic clatter to thumpy beats. The track builds into a sort of chaotic whirlwind that is loud without becoming too harsh. The thickness of it is actually quite enjoyable, and seems to end a bit quickly, tapering off into nothingness. A chunky, crunchy synth loop makes up the meatiest portion of "Dirty War [Vers remix]", but is accompanied by glitchy effects and a light, cool air that floats through the piece. It's another great track that seems as if it could have gone on much longer, and probably could have easily since its comes in at just over four minutes. Just as it hooked me in, it was gone. "No Grounds for Movement [Exclipsect remix]" seems to stumble over itself at many points. It just didn't seem to develop a flow I could get into. Its beats are sporadic and unpredictable, changing frequently. Packed with glitchy blips and crunchy static, the track seems to flesh itself out a bit, but continues to retain an uneasy, chaotic quality. As the disc continues, it seems to take darker turns. "Flies Surround Me [Antigen Shift remix]" also begins quite tensely, with a rather threatening air hanging overhead. The build instills a sense of anticipation of imminent doom, but doesn't ever explode to the degree expected. Heavy, heart throbbing beats boom with all due intensity, and mounts into something faster and fearful. The track seems to take the listener through a series of sensations- tension, fear, anticipation, and calm. "Burn in Hell [Symbiont remix]" is bitter and highly serrated with vocals that are harsh and wicked. This track also begs for dancefloor sacrifice in the form of blood, sweat and blisters. Insane rhythms and over the top intensity will have people ready to either shoot the DJ or find themselves lost in beat-driven bliss. "Obduktionssaal [Fragment King remix]" really ends this disc on a harsh note. There's a beat, sort of, buried in there somewhere. But, it is overwhelmed by the sheer power of the noise. Crushing static, glitches, malfunctions, twists, blips and feedback seek to shred what's left of your ears. Pareses Re:infected is definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but is a fair set of songs crucified, hacked, mangled, and seriously overworked by a variety of artists. While all tracks are those of Pneumatic Detach, those performing remixes have brought their own unique touches to the forefront. Many tracks are infectious, throbbing from start to finish. Pareses Re:infected is not at all suitable for those looking for something soft and cozy; it's a commanding release that carries enough momentum to knock you off your feet. Laura B - Sublevel 203 . com Pneumatic Detach nos sorprendio gratamente en 2002 con su debut '[pa·re·ses]' y su original mezcla de sonidos electro-industriales con efectos analógicos y reminiscencias obsoletas de una gratificante sensibilidad y ahora regresa con un álbum de remezclas a cargo de proyectos más o menos relevantes de la escena electrónica más oscura y clandestina. Sin salirnos de los márgenes antes citados podemos definir el álbum como variado y heterogéneo gracias a la disparidad de los nombres elegidos para producir las versiones y la forma de combinarlos. La misión de cada uno de ellos ha sido crear composiciones a su estilo destruyendo y reconstruyendo los temas originales del artista de Massachusettes algo que consiguen sin paleativos pues, en la mayoria de los casos, no se reconoce el espiritu de Pneumatic Detach. En la parte estrictamente musical el disco empieza suavecito y con elegancia, en el que Grenadier firma un tema de con aires clásicos de synthpop; Le sigue el proyecto que, a nuestro criterio fue la revelación del pasado año, Scrap.edx, los cuales nos trasladan hacia el lado más oscuro del ser humano con 'Miserable Existence' a golpes de ritmos y distorsiones agudas y afiladas; Kreptkrept mete la quinta con su ultra-percusívo y rayante tema de título igualmente desquiciante; Más espiritual y etereo aunque no menos agresivo es la producción del magistral Detritus con su dualidad característica de clasicismo evolucionado; Y seguimos ahondando en la psicológia humana gracias al esquizofrénico 'Self Meditation' de Navicon Torture Technologies y su power-electronic monomaniático; C2 es la versión más industrial y bailable del proyecto Control.org y ya colaborarón con Pneumatic Detach en un Split publicao este mismo año en Hive Records y ahora repiten con este potente temazo rompepistas; En el ecuador del disco tenemos a Starving Cell (Luca Piscopo) con 'MLP'. Un tema muy original de techno brutal sin concesiones que creo es uno de los más brillantes del disco entre otras cosa por su apabullante producción. AEC (American Electronics Corporation) marcán un punto de inflexión dentro del álbum y presentan la única aportación vocal que encontramos en el (junto al tema de Symbiont), se trata de 'Justin is a Stalker', un corte de dark wave clásico y de calidad; Volvemos a coger el tren del rhythmic noise con una de las sorpresas del año: Iszoloscope. 'Silent House' es una nueva vuelta de tuerca dentro del género en su vertiente más purista; El ritmo sigue adelante con Vers, alter ego de Brian Redmon o lo que es lo mismo, un artista multimedia creador del sello neoyorquino de electrónica Dysgenis donde nos enseña una pequeña muestra de lo que es su flamante álbum 'Low Light, Slow Film, and Alcohol' con d'n'b y jungle oscuro e industrial; 'Initial Reaction' es el tema de Pneumatic Detach escogido por Exclipsect que en sus manos se ha transformado en 'No Grounds for Movement' o traducido en conceptos sonoros, percusiones y distorsiones sobrevolando maquinaria industrial de gran calibre; 'Files Surround Me' es la reaparición de Antigen Shift despues de su álbum 'Implicit Structures' donde recrea paisajes arcanos y gélidos en lo que podríamos definir como la descendencia directa del rhythic noise clásico; Es la hora de volver a la lírica en otra de las excepciones vocales del disco con Symbiont como protagonistas. El duo de Salt Lake City nos ofrece la cara más agresiva del dark electro en la linea de bandas como Wumpscut u Hocico; Como fin de fiesta tenemos a Fragment King con una enfermiza remezcla de breakcore y drum'n'bass que remata el disco no sin antes destrozarnos los últimos reductos neuronales que nos pudieran quedar. drum - n - noise . com If you search the Usenet archives with the right keywords at Google you'll see that during some earlier years I spewed a lot of spit and angst towards what I saw as the blight of dance music, specifically dance industrial (Wax Trax, Metropolis, etc.). These days it seems a little funny in retrospect that someone in an "industrial" rock band would be so offended by "industrial" dance music but I do still carry a little of that unease around with me despite having lost much of the total kneejerk. This remix release from Hive Records cranks my musical contrast level up to point of losing the vertical hold, at times I feel like a comparator slamming hard back and forth between the rails of love / hate. It's not a binary system as I do like most of this recording but that which I dislike, well, it's a like red hot poker probing one's starfish without even saying please and thank you. I am a huge fan of powernoise - all mechanical and intricate, using sharp edges as structure with momentum most important of all. Death industrial or dark ambient comes on more like an dangerous emotion or a prolonged sickness where as powernoise is akin to tension causing the reflex action of forming a fist. Procedural, methodical, relentless, driving. And sure, often very danceable. At its best it sports the intellectual satisfaction of drum + bass mixed with the blood lust of the old school and gives us the marching music for a thousand dystopias. At its least spirited though you have EBM with too much eyeliner or one finger FrutiyLoops constructions with distortion piled to hide the fact that what you are listening to sucks. For me, "Pareses infected" touches both places, most cathartic neck crack but the odd hairball squirming into you ear like a Wet Willy from from a dirty uncle. The disc spins up with an irresistible bit of push beat booty shake that I want to hate but have little chance to. It's the kind of thing that could just as easily have nails on chalkboard effeminate British rapping over top of a la Pop Will Eat Itself as diving synth sweeps and noisy textural flourishes but ultimately ends up on the good side of industrial flavoured car commercial techno. Scrap.edx kick in with a floaty little intro that uses the same tubular and ethereal synth sound that was put to such good use on "Human Dislocation" by Imminent Starvation before sliding over into the more expected squelchy and busy IDM realm. KreptKrept's take has the feeling of a speed freak looking at their watch waiting for the man, all itchy and revved up and the towering glass and steel buildings around you all at uncomfortable angles. Detritus brings in a melodic angle but punctuated by far more violence than I would have expected, calm bits of DnB offering respite between each outburst. Navicon Torture Technologies are their usual noisy selves though a tad less gutteral with more high end, sans vocals Survival Unit vs. Atrax Morgue with their attack. C2 do pretty much exactly what you would expect, straighter than an Amish father club techno industrial which will make some of you pump up the smoke machine, fire the strobes and jiggle your zipper pants but personally is just above average clock watching music for me. The Starving Cell initially sounds like another helping from the same worn trough but quickly devolves into an ever so slightly V/Vm tinged single cycle loop frenetic rave thingy that works quite well. Previously I was not aware of AEC and I wish I could return to that blessed state - the only way this band could be more stinky cheese false metal is if they painted fake track marks on their arms and talked about how much the heroin helped them get in touch with their inner demons (whilst smoking clove cigarettes and sipping absinthe of course). As their John Ritter trained vocalist bleets "there is only so much a man take. . .", hell I'd rather suffer through Nickelback or gasp, Snow than crap like this. Luckily Iszoloscope pipe up with some rocking scrape-core to remind us that we are not stuck in a goth themed "Quincy" re-run. Vers take on Pneumatic stirs up some vehicular lust in my loins, the urge to mount a crotch rocket and shoot around some dangerous curves nearly as overbearing as the sleaziness of that last string of innuendo. Exclipsect throw a bucket load of software at the problem with some internal AI entity suddenly becoming self-aware and causing the rest of the track to be a constant battle as to who will gain control. Together with Tarmvred, Antigen Shift are one of my primary choices of conversion music for those not primed for harsher material but open to suggestion. Here they lend their atmospheric knack for beats and tone with much the usual aplomb so as expected it is a decent track. Symbiont are not the worst ever but I would have preferred more digital hardcore and less raver pants to snag in my bike chain. The Fragment King joint is not so much a remix as a set of commercial size cauldrons boiling over, lids a flapping with spouts of steam and spatters of liquid. Nice. When this release sucks it is like cramming your head into a compost bucket that has been sitting out in the sun for the last three weeks, the building methane reek buckling out the sides it is so acrid. That said, besides the one utter mishap and a few mediocre tracks causing a slowdown the final ratio is still high enough to keep the disc in your stacks, especially if you have an inclination towards any of the bands here. If you liked the original precursor then you should move this disc a tad higher up your acquisition list. Moron - Industrial . org Discovered last year with an excellent first album on Frozen Empire Media, the bostoneer Pneumatic Detach comes back today on the young label Hive Records to leave the tracks of "Pa Re Ses" in the hands of remixers, mostly from the young generation of mutant industrial. From Iszoloscope to Exclipsect, from Antigen Shift to Kreptkrept, Navicon Torture Technologies, Detritus or Grenadier, the needed number of talented re-assemblers / re-infecters is easily reached, and Pneumatic Detach sees itself rushed from the less gentle powernoise to the most danceable electro, with shards of violent breakcore in between. The best cuts are surely the sinister ambient remix of Antigen Shift and the "thrillkillkultian" version of Grenadier which, on their own, would be enough to justify the buying of "Pareses Re:Infected". We could only regret that Hive Records doesn't take this opportunity to re-release "Pa Re Ses", already sold out, which deserves much more than to disappear into oblivion. Jean-François Micard - D-Side . org pneumatic detach genießen auf dem gebiet des experimentellen industrial in ihrer amerikanischen heimat großes ansehen, denn dort konnten sie sich bislang durch ein dutzend exzellenter samplerbeiträge, die selbst produzierte CD "experiments in psychosis" und das erste reguläre album "pareses", damals noch bei frozen empire media erschienen, mit unkonventionellen klanginstallationen hervortun. das remixalbum "pareses re:infected" erschien vor wenigen wochen bei dem neuen texanischen label hive records, welches nur kurz nach veröffentlichung des 14 tracks umfassenden kleinen meisterwerks die auf 100 stück limitierte erstauflage in spezieller verpackung als "sold out" deklarieren musste. für eine äußerst vielseitige mixtur aus breakcore und powernoise mit anleihen aus klassischem electro und coldwave sorgen interpretationen artverwandter acts wie scrap.edx, detritus, aec, antigen shift oder symbiont. ungewöhnlich für diese for der musik ist, dass der einsatz von wirklich gesungenen vocals und (Gitarren!) samples bei einigen stücken nicht von vornherein ausgeklammert wurde. noise-freaks, die nicht ausschließlich auf straighte rhythmen und harsches gebrate stehen, sollten sich diesem Projekt bedenkenlos nähern können. jörn karstedt - Sonic - Seducer . de