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Artist:	MILSTEIN, BEN
Title:	Procrastinate
Label:	OUTSIDE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	OUTSIDE 007EP

"Mr. Milstein trailblazed his way into our musical radars last year with his almighty debut Away for the Outside label. His tough, uncompromising take on electro mechanisms and electronic twists combined the intricate reaktor constructions of Bitstream with the tough, rugged sound-designed electroid mashups of Berlin's MMM. Procrastinate follows in the darkest possible fashion and asserts itself as the hardest, most disturbed electro twelve you'll hear this year. The prolonged distorted beat coughs of the opening title track dominates bass and white noise fissures in a way that makes it sound like a drugged-up, decimated 21st century version of Herbie's classic 'Rockit' : nasty, brutal, awesome stuff. 'Fuzzy', meanwhile, makes use of ruined effects taking off with what sound like broken engines fading away into the distance -- a ruinous cacophony of deep bass stabs and filtered electro beats that could only soundtrack a bleak, industrial landscape. If you want your electro demented, futuristic, groundbreaking, outright RUDE -- don't bother looking any further."

Artist:	SCARLETRON
Title:	The Claw
Label:	OUTSIDE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	OUTSIDE 008EP

"More vintage, previously unheard material from the vaults of Carl Finlow and Daz Quayle. The Claw takes off with the paranoid jerks and broken electronics of the title track -- a mashed-up take on heavy construction and broken rhythms that sounds unlike anything else from back in the day or anything else since -- seriously schizoid jacking required, you'll do well to keep up. 'Bad December' (written in isolation one cold, dank December back in Leeds circa '97) flows with a padded depth of reflection and fat assed acoustic drum breaks, blessed with downtempo cinematic strings par excellence -- awesome, moving, inspired stuff. "Scarletron", meanwhile, heads back to a complex structure -- impossibly tough percussion and edits that sound like a modified realization of Phoenecia's mighty Soul Oddity project, cut up with the ferocity of Bitstream."

Artist:	NKTAR
Title:	Truizm
Label:	OUTSIDE (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	OUTSIDE 009EP

"'Truizm' opens us up in proper fashion, a teetering drum machine motif works its way in, gearing up for the impressive machine-soul brinkmanship of the track. Benign melodies almost disguise the deadly floor potential of a tune like this, merciless bassline culture at its best. And when a bassline paves the way, not far behind there's the electric detonation of a big, decimated, roller of a break: think Psyche's 'Chicken Noodle Soup' and you're just about gettin there. 'Rite thru' comes over a little reticent at first, more sedate tempo wise, softened by a spoken vocal -- but allowing a sophisticated disintegration of the beat, bass science for sure ... 'Venom' fully delivers on its name -- blorty bass tones show again Outside's predilection for the dirtiest low-end around, only remitting slightly as a looping synth wash and a lovely breakdown offer some releases from the dark, visceral flow of the tune."

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