Column One - Electric Pleasure [90% Wasser Records - 2002]After to been rather taken by Column One’s strange and jarring field recording album Feldaufnahmen I. I felt it was time to check out some more work by this bizarre collective; Electric Pleasure is quite a different kettle of fish from Feldaufnahmen I with the only connection really been the clever use of sampling. The album is a strange yet often approachable cross breed of 1950’s and 60’s sci-fi soundtrack texturing and samples, big beat and often glitch lined electronica, vocoder robot like voices, synth pop, the odd noise risers & the odd dwell in eerier sci-fi flying saucer ambience. With the album through-out managing to balance wonderfully the camp-ness and eeriness of 50’s sci-fi with clean and sleek modern beat making that’s often lined with quirky and surreal edger’s. There’s a nice mix of pace going from: the sinister and rising melted 50’s soundtrack textures- that are lined often with carefully placed film dialogue samples, to almost bizarre club friendly beat making, vocoder & synth throbs. To repetitious, slamming, fuzzed lined and jarring beat slicing, down to atmospheric techno meets ambient synth scaping. All in all another very original, diffrent and quirky album from this German experimental collective. That wonderfully pays tribute to the sinister & camp wonder of sci-fi films and ideas with great creatively, humour and surrealism    Roger Batty
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