Title: Brain Mutants EP
Artist: DMX Crew
Label: No Static/Automatic
Cat Number: NSA007
Genre: Techno/Electro
A1: Mutated Brain Process
A2: Electric Mutant
A3: Non-Euclidean Coordinates
B1: Tunnel Mutant
B2: Depressed Mutant
Ed DMX has been around for a while, and released so much that it’s normal he would be looking to utilise new approaches in order to create his music. So, according to the press for this release, he has been working with “the Aphex Twin created Sample Brain, old disco records and analogue synth notes were fed into the sample mashing web app to create the sounds used on this EP.” With that in mind, the content doesn’t feel any more or less processed than would be expected. Production isn’t compromised. And, the relatively narrow parameters of the prescribed sound are flexed to their utmost. The EP is characterised by a level of whimsey that infuses even the most sinister melodies, perhaps best heard on the bee like signature over the dense techno pummelling on ‘Depressed Mutant’. ‘Non-Euclidean Coordinates’ is a stand out, with its stripped down percussion over a gloomy, bleak backing providing a change from the frictional, and occasionally hesitant first couple of compositions.
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