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::: Schizoid :::"enough is enough"

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digital-hard-core-industrial

From D-Trash Records comes this CDR full of wake-up-the-neighbours-digi-core-mayhem called Schizoid. On this 10 track 40 minute album you'll find a schizophrenic mix of gabba-hard-core-techno blam-blam-blam-beats, monster movie samples, gruff distorted ranting male vocals, samples of sped up records, and god knows what else, crunching metallic guitars, spastic crescendoes and breakdowns.... whew, it's full on. Wow, I've just had de-ja-vu writing this review, maybe that's a side-effect.

Comparisons? Who does this sound like? Well, it's actually the first band I've heard that sounds close to the way EYE sometimes DJ on the radio and in nightclubs (and alienate a lot of people by doing so). That is, having about 5 or more sound sources at once and mixing randomly between them - chaos - trying to create the sound of the end of the modern media world - the catharsis of being fed up with apathetic morons who are afraid - wanting to hit some intelligence and belief in their own ability to change things for the better into them - that's what SCHIZOID aims for. Yes I can relate to this. But as for known names, I guess the closest I've heard is early 90s electro-industrial stuff like Leatherstrip and Klute. But this is much more interesting, varied, in-your-face than those. This is also about something. I suppose Atari Teenage Riot are an obvious comparison too... perhaps even early S.P.K.?

While I don't find any mention of specific issues on this CD, Schizoid is a "wake up call" to all those who are allergic to thought. A wake up call to get off your bum and actually start thinking, and doing something to make the world a better place - to question all the rubbish that the media, politics and all the rest spoonfed us with. A Schizoid motto: "to deny the insanity or flee from it, is to submit to it and be at the mercy of it!!" Yep, this is on a very similar wavelength to EYE, e.l.f. and blatant propaganda productions, so of course, it gets the big thumbs up. (You do have to be in the right mood to listen to this though! Not advisable just before bed.)

Grab yourself a copy from: Schizoid: J. Smith - 34 Ontario St. N#1 Kitchener Ontario, Canada, N2H 4Y4. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.lunaticfringe.org/~schizoid Cost: $10 CDN for Canada $10 US for the World.


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