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Lenny Dee - Extreme Mash (The Intro)
DJ Earthquake - Step into the Pit
The Emperator & Chromatic - Mental Fear
Fiend & Broken Rules - Sharper Image
Cut a Kaos - Dedicated To...
Terrorfakt - Achtung (Cervello Elettronico Remix)
Stan Crewzell - Das Grauen
Terrorfakt - Headcase (Floppy Disc Remix)
Koney - Unregistered
Daisy & Stormtrooper - Mindwalkers
Moleculez - Legally Insane
Forsaken is Dead & CIK - Where U At
Tymon - Passing By
Manga Corps - The Hunter
Broken Rules - Normal Operation
German Rhythm Disaster - The End
The Speed Freak - Give Me a Call
Life:::Runs:::Red meets Tymon - Distorture
Tymon - Gucci
Stormtrooper - Todesvogel
Ophidian & Tieum - Nothing I Can't Handle
Lenny Dee - The Dreamer (Promo Remix)
Delta 9 - No More Regrets (Inyoung & Static Mix)
Fiend & Broken Rules vs. Lenny Dee - Breakya Head
Tieum & Lenny Dee - I Don't Like You Either
Partyraiser & The Negotiator - No Negotiations
Jappo & Lancinhouse - Exlxaxl (Neophyte & Evil Activities Remix)
DJ Skinhead - The Ultimate Cumshot
Akira - Ripping FXXkin Strength
ISR Crew - Special Message for Lenny
Moshpit - Eyesore
Riff Glitchard - Instant Mash
Moshpit - We Killed Jah
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Lenny Dee Presents: Cold Fusion
Industrial Strength Records
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2008
By: Dillon Carlyon
By: Dillon Carlyon
Hard, fast, and unforgiving, this compilation lacks versatility, but more than makes up for it with pure aggression.
Based in Brooklyn, Industrial Strength Records began putting out material in 1991 and has consistently released material on the far end of harsh, head-busting, aggressive techno ever since. Lenny Dee Presents: Cold Fusion features the very latest that the label has to offer. It is very difficult for a noise compilation to avoid pigeonholing itself into an indistinguishable morass of scratches and beats that cannot help but lose the listener on the way. This comp, however, is fairly well balanced and equally well paced, mixing up the tracks well as far as BPM and overall tone go. Though much of the material is pretty over the top, and some of it is downright ridiculous, there is enough variation and experimentation happening among the artists to keep the collection engaging.
The first few tracks on disc one are fast and furious enough, but they blend together and fly by quickly. The first song to stand out is Cut a Kaos' "Dedicated To...," featuring a much slower BPM than most of the other material on this disc. This serves to bring the impact of the crunchy embellishments and the vocal samples home more effectively. The two Terrorfakt remixes are good, though neither deviate a great deal from the original versions. "Legally Insane" by Moleculez features a great high-pitched, fast-moving electronic tremor along with a beat that has some very addictive sub-bass to it. "Passing By" by Tymon has a great intro of eerie, distant sounding tones that rise and fall once the beat is introduced.
A combination of thick beats and effects that evolve and mutate enough to keep anyone with ADD interested, Speed Freak's "Give Me a Call" brings disc two in with a bang and then some. The Promo remix of "The Dreamer," a track from Lenny Dee himself, is another highlight, with an extremely fast BPM that randomly slows down, falls apart, and then comes back together as the pitch of the bass line rises and falls; skewed vocal effects and samples also suddenly appear and disappear. Some of the tracks on this disc edge more towards weird, harder techno, such as Jappo & Lancinhouse's "Exlxaxl (Remix by Neophyte & Evil Activities)," which features a slightly irritating loop of a couple of chopped up vocal samples, but also breaks things up very unexpectedly about a third of the way through with an amusingly distorted smattering of a popular new age vocalist, who shall remain nameless (no joke!). "Eyesore" and "We Killed Jah" by Moshpit introduce some guitar into the mix. The latter part of this disc seems to fade into a haze of dead end beats and electronic exhaust, though I'd like to meet the person who wouldn't be worn out after listening to this all the way through.
Anyone who has a sweet tooth for noise or aggressive electro will be exceedingly satisfied with Cold Fusion. Where it lacks the depth of a more well rounded collection, it more than makes up for this shortcoming with what noise fans are looking for: hard, fast, distorted beats galore, backed up by an impressive level of programming and production.
The first few tracks on disc one are fast and furious enough, but they blend together and fly by quickly. The first song to stand out is Cut a Kaos' "Dedicated To...," featuring a much slower BPM than most of the other material on this disc. This serves to bring the impact of the crunchy embellishments and the vocal samples home more effectively. The two Terrorfakt remixes are good, though neither deviate a great deal from the original versions. "Legally Insane" by Moleculez features a great high-pitched, fast-moving electronic tremor along with a beat that has some very addictive sub-bass to it. "Passing By" by Tymon has a great intro of eerie, distant sounding tones that rise and fall once the beat is introduced.
A combination of thick beats and effects that evolve and mutate enough to keep anyone with ADD interested, Speed Freak's "Give Me a Call" brings disc two in with a bang and then some. The Promo remix of "The Dreamer," a track from Lenny Dee himself, is another highlight, with an extremely fast BPM that randomly slows down, falls apart, and then comes back together as the pitch of the bass line rises and falls; skewed vocal effects and samples also suddenly appear and disappear. Some of the tracks on this disc edge more towards weird, harder techno, such as Jappo & Lancinhouse's "Exlxaxl (Remix by Neophyte & Evil Activities)," which features a slightly irritating loop of a couple of chopped up vocal samples, but also breaks things up very unexpectedly about a third of the way through with an amusingly distorted smattering of a popular new age vocalist, who shall remain nameless (no joke!). "Eyesore" and "We Killed Jah" by Moshpit introduce some guitar into the mix. The latter part of this disc seems to fade into a haze of dead end beats and electronic exhaust, though I'd like to meet the person who wouldn't be worn out after listening to this all the way through.
Anyone who has a sweet tooth for noise or aggressive electro will be exceedingly satisfied with Cold Fusion. Where it lacks the depth of a more well rounded collection, it more than makes up for this shortcoming with what noise fans are looking for: hard, fast, distorted beats galore, backed up by an impressive level of programming and production.
