Title: Luke Vibert Presents Amen Andrews
Artist: Luke Vibert
Label: Hypercolour
Cat Number: HYPELP015
Genre:
1: Pressure
2: God
3: Animen
4: DBC 1
5: Bass Kick
6: Ready
7: Sirius
8: Big L
9: Better Breaks
10: New Bust
11: Ready Again
12: Strange
13: Bad Boy Acid
14: Lower
I thought I’d leave this album to play in my bedroom, pop down to watch ‘Primates’ and snuggle back up to it after. However, it had finished by the time I got back, which surprised me. Then I looked at the track lengths, and surmised that in spite of the number of tunes on this release, brevity is everything in the hardcore continuum. There’s no benefit to stretching a point. Enshrining the Amen break, these brief glimpses of a cartoon parallel world take some basic elements and amplify them to devastating effect. I can’t out it any better than the press release (which is rare) “14 slabs of raucous breakbeat bangers, riddled with cool as fuck samples and bass bin shattering sub”. I like everything on this album, with the samples often deciding which I like more. Current favourites are ‘God’, ‘Ready’, ‘Sirius’ and ‘Bad Boy Acid’, all of which make me piss myself. Actually, the whole album does, but some tunes reduce me to greater levels of incontinence than others. It’s a glorious, cohesive mess.
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