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Revolting Cocks
Sex-O Mixxx-O

13th Planet Records / Megaforce Records

Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009
By: Ilker Yücel
Editor

As loud and lewd as ever, Revolting Cocks continues as the most successful of the Ministry side-projects with this remix companion to Sex-O Olympic-O. While many fans undoubtedly have misgivings about the prospect of RevCo continuing without Al Jourgensen behind the reigns, Sex-O Olympic-O was arguably the tightest and most well constructed album in the band's oeuvre, and so the inherently haphazard nature of Sex-O Mixxx-O may add a small amount of comfort to those who demand a less cohesive and dirtier sound to RevCo. From the unabashed disco of Chris Vrenna's Tweaker mix of "HookerBot3000" to the transformation of the raunchy "Touch Screen" into a gritty piece of smarmy electro by RevCo co-founder Luc Van Acker, the band's more danceable elements are given their due emphasis without sacrificing the guitar-driven sleaze that permeates each song. Taking things further in this direction, Dave "Rave" Ogilvie's and Colin Janz's remix of "I'm Not Gay" lives up to its name as the I'm So Gay Club mix, taking the darkly humorous electro of the original into a full blown dance territory with cheesy synthesizer leads and quintessentially clubby bass and beats. Conversely, RevCo and Stayte member Clayton Worbeck's mix of "Abundant Redundancy" is one of the more raucously industrial offerings on Sex-O Mixxx-O, with the guitars pumped to 11, the beats pounding, and the aggression on an electrified high. The same can be said of the Invincible Mix of "Keys to the City" by Pop Will Eat Itself's Crabbi, taking the Gary Glitter-ish stomp of the original and allowing it to only take center stage after stabs of chunk guitars and an almost agonizingly slow beat insinuate themselves into the listener's psyche; once the stomp does kick in, the track shifts to a far more menacing and tense atmosphere. If there is anything negative to say about Sex-O Mixxx-O, it would be that with the greater attention paid to the band's danceable side the album seems lighter than the original. While this is hardly a detriment since some would argue it's sexier and perhaps more decadent to dance than it is to mosh, it does lend a certain sense of diminishment to the feeling of debaucherous abandon that defines Sex-O Olympic-O and RevCo's music in general. On the whole, Sex-O Mixxx-O does serve its purpose and is at the very least worth the price of admission, so girls can kick up their stripper heels and guys can chug some brew with hands firmly planted in pants.