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Nigmatic
Thought Crimes
Posted: Friday, April 04, 2008
By: Dillon Carlyon
By: Dillon Carlyon
Industrial and hip-hop trade notes on evolution and revolution.
With Thought Crimes, Nigmatic has brought 15 tracks of hip-hop-based electro to the table that would be equally at home playing at edgy club nights and blaring from the slums of the future. It would be easy to compare Nigmatic's sound with that of SMP, Stromkern, and Battery Cage, but with Thought Crimes, Nigmatic seems to stay much truer to the hip-hop side of things than any of the projects just mentioned. The beat structures are seldom a straight 4/4 and instead tend towards more experimental combinations. The beats also tend towards the lighter side, but tracks like "Abyss" and "Noes" are a bit harder and lean more towards an EBM feel. The vocal style of the material on Thought Crimes is very unique for genre straddlers of this type; the vocals are lighter, slightly campy, and the delivery is swift and clever. The lyrics, bespeaking urban angst, revolution, and dismemberment, achieve a lasting impact through the busy, almost crowded hip-hop structure that frames them.
"Bury Me" has a great thick beat and the addition of guitar gives it an industrial edge. "Abyss" has driving vocals and a steady beat that's also a bit harder than many of the other songs on this release. "Noes" is a great track that starts slow and quiet and adds some excellent, electrifying synths. "Dismember" is probably the best song on Thought Crimes, featuring a combination of evolving beats and fast, hard-hitting lyrics. "Amplified" features a deep ululating, metallic synth that is well complemented by occasional guitar. Though energetic, the first 10 tracks of this release are fairly one-sided and somewhat monotone, but "Ethan 27," albeit rather short, is a visceral instrumental with much depth and feeling. This is followed up by "Monarchy," an excellent track that starts out with a beat made more for marching than dancing, moving later into nonstop hip-hop vocals that finish things up on a pulse-quickening note.
Thought Crimes is an impressive release that has a lot to offer dance music enthusiasts and those who like to see genres mixed up a bit. Nigmatic has claimed its place in alternative electronic, and things are bound to only get more interesting from here.
"Bury Me" has a great thick beat and the addition of guitar gives it an industrial edge. "Abyss" has driving vocals and a steady beat that's also a bit harder than many of the other songs on this release. "Noes" is a great track that starts slow and quiet and adds some excellent, electrifying synths. "Dismember" is probably the best song on Thought Crimes, featuring a combination of evolving beats and fast, hard-hitting lyrics. "Amplified" features a deep ululating, metallic synth that is well complemented by occasional guitar. Though energetic, the first 10 tracks of this release are fairly one-sided and somewhat monotone, but "Ethan 27," albeit rather short, is a visceral instrumental with much depth and feeling. This is followed up by "Monarchy," an excellent track that starts out with a beat made more for marching than dancing, moving later into nonstop hip-hop vocals that finish things up on a pulse-quickening note.
Thought Crimes is an impressive release that has a lot to offer dance music enthusiasts and those who like to see genres mixed up a bit. Nigmatic has claimed its place in alternative electronic, and things are bound to only get more interesting from here.
