music review:

in-FUSED ::: "Coding Emotion"

industrial-electronic-body-music

This is the debut 17-track release from this grinding cyber-elektro project from the U.S.A. As I really dug the track "digitized" on the "cyberpuncture" compilation (United Endangered Front) I was looking forward to hearing more in-FUSED. Though it's taken a while for me to be able to get into this. This is because there is something pretty dark and intense about in-FUSED, in the manner of groups such as Leather Strip and early X Marks the Pedwalk, and I just wasn't in the mood for that when I received the CD.

However, when I am in the mood, it hits the spot. in-FUSED's sound is a distinctive mixture of e.b.m. synth bass and drum beats, with drilling futuristic-torture-lab sounds, pianos, thick and fast LFO'ing lower range synths, synth-bellish noises (a Yamaha DX7?), and brooding distorted male vocals. I can also hear Tommy T's past thrash metal influences coming through. Though this is in terms of structure and feel as there are no guitars here! Highlight tracks for me are "monotony", "digitized" with it's brutal driving beats and snarling vocals, "tension" and "cyberfaction" which has become stuck in my head.

"Coding Emotion" is a collection of brooding, intense and dark elektro nightmares - the faint-hearted should beware!

Available for $12 USd, outside of US, ad $3 shipping:

DSBP Records 237 Cagua NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA.

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