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:: Friday, December 05, 2003 ::

EP Review: Umek – Telontol

Bit of a late review this one, but I’ve just received a copy of the new Umek EP, Telontol, which was released on Monday. The opening title track itself is would be of interest to any Underworld fan, with its hard techno styling. However, the track is far too predictable for my taste, hardly changes at all over its near six minute running time and over uses a doppler sample (passing car like sound effect) that I’m sure the Prodigy used heavily on one track, possibly on the Jilted album. The second track, Genaolam, strats with some lovely dissonant jazzy keyboard stabbing that wouldn’t be out of place on Snares' Songs About My Cats. These end and there is a few seconds silence before it launches into another pounding techno track, this time broken up by a couple of key stabs where everything else is muted. It’s quite a nice little comical touch and the warm keys used here are like the resolution to the dissonant chords used at the start. This is a great DJ track nicely laid out for mixing. The final two tracks, Arondon and Entan, are both in the same vein but not as good and ultimately less memorable. This is great driving music, and for the DJ would be worth buying for Genolam alone, otherwise it’s not particularly memorable.

:: Dan 5.12.03 [Arc]    ::
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