Title: Fang Man EP
Artist: Neil Landstrumm
Label: Discs Of The World
Cat Number: DW004
Genre: Hardcore
A1: 80 Clicks Of Your Hand
A2: Cash Crew
B1: Desperate
B2: Eskva
Did hardcore ever go away? I love asking these annoying rhetorical questions in reviews. I suppose the obvious answer is no. However, having kept a relatively low profile for what seems like forever, its sideways shift from out of the shadows has come at a time when, for whatever reason, it sounds crazy stupid fresh (as they say). Neil Landstrumm, no stranger to the uncompromising side of things, has come up with a release that shifts the momentum from wild oblivion to nuance, as much as could be expected within the genre. The first two tracks on this release are syncopated excursions into the parallel netherworld that is normally soundtracked much more manically, but here relies on left field friction to create a twisted mirror image of stateside electro g funk. The second two tracks are a little less restrained, but still come tempered with a subtlety that, however much it is regarded, manages to propel this harmonious filth into the upper echelons of sonic invention.
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