Title: Boanerges And The Watery Deep
Artist: Techmarine Bottom Feeders
Label: EPM Music
Cat Number: EPM82
Genre: Electro
01: Sub Lineage Genesis
02: We Cannot Help You (Side Steppin)
03: Out Of Water Out Of Time
04: Sons Of Thunder
05: Constructing A Powerful Enemy
06: The Scientists Were Only Being Scientific
07: The Vision (Left Further instructions)
08: A Quagmire Of Confusion
09: Sons Of Experimentation And War
10: The Proud Traitor’s Demise
11: The Lens Gateway
12: A Groundless New World
Techmarine Bottom Feeders is Luxus Varta and Paris The Black Fu, and this collaboration is according to the press release: “ . . . a project that’s been burning away in the back of Paris’s mind since childhood. His imagination was piqued after seeing the covers of novels his father was reading at the time and he soon began imagining his own stories, like that of his ocean dwelling misfits.” Obvious conceptual comparisons with Drexciya will be made, but the hypothesis does diverge. The music is mercifully free of such coincidental motifs. Of course, electro is present: ‘We Cannot Help You (Side Steppin)’, ‘Sons Of Thunder’, and ‘A Quagmire Of Confusion’. However, the album as a whole is a very inventive piece of work that, on the whole, dramatically evokes the parallel world it seeks to. From the dank hip-hop of ‘Sons Of Experimentation And War’ to the haunting cold wave sonar of ‘Constructing A Powerful Enemy’ and the funky depth charged minimalism of ‘The Proud Traitor’s Demise’ this album wears many hats very well. Sonically sound and very imaginative, the documentation of this hermetically sealed aquatic ecosystem feels like a proper album.
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