The Passage - Pindrop

The Passage's first album is unique in many ways since this one is in fact a solo record. It sounds like Suicide at times, and at times like their later output. The sound is sparce and minimal and I just loove it.
There is a nice reissue on CD with some early singles on it but is a bitch to find.
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More Texans - this time it's the Pink Swords

http://www.myspace.com/pinkswords

Just what the other review said:it’s another hellswarm of ragged audio dust devils touching down in your ears and scrambling what’s left of your brains in short, barely controlled bursts of animal rage gone all hot and electric. This is rawknroll goddamnit!

More popular in Europe than in US, and that's how I got to know them. Eviva!

The sound of Sheffield from Zagreb

When you start reading about Suicide you find out that the equipment they used was all used, used Farfisa organ, used drum machines etc. The same was with early Cabs, they played whatever they could find and incorporated it all to their sound. Today we don't even have to do that, since there is so much free and shareware software around that you can virtually do the whole thing without or with very little money.
So we come to Narrow, an excellent Cabs inspired project, from Zagreb, Croatia. Heavily into lo-fi, they use analog used equipment and a Sony walkman. Everything is mastered onto a compact cassette due to its "sound quality". This is their first release, made on two mini cd-r's and put into a very intuitive packaging, which resembles LP's gatefold sleeve.
The music itself is a near perfect old fashioned bleepy industro dance that Cabaret Voltaire are the crowned kings of. The prime track here is: Don't talk to me 'bout love, my personal DJ-ing favourite. It gets me started in the right direction.
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