Just got this review via Sydney magazine
Cyclic Defrost...
This sixth 12” vinyl EP release from German techno label Slidebar Recordings manage to maintain the imprint’s established reputation for eclecticism, with four distinctly divergent tracks from Bill Youngman, Cristian Vogel, Tobias Schmidt and expat Aussie now living in Tokyo Little Nobody. On the A-side, Bill Youngman’s aptly titled ‘Weepbeep’ sends an urgently bleeping synth-pulse quelching against crisp pneumatic kickdrums and rattling percussion tones that slide back and forth between the speakers, the sense of rising tension conjuring up the sense of factory line machinery speeding out of control. Little Nobody’s ‘Troll’ meanwhile maintains the dark, rattling trajectory, sending all manner of grinding machine noises scraping against a backdrop of chaotically rattling broken house rhythms, only for eerie psyche-rock Hammond organ tones to gradually overtake the entire track towards its very end, before Cristian Vogel’s ‘Black Box’ strips things right back to a rubbery-sounding electro bassline and sparse-sounding techno rhythms, woody-sounding tribal percussion rising up in the mix as delayed out snares crack back and forth against noodling analogue synth sequences. Finally, Tobias Schmidt’s ‘Abstracto Distracto’ kicks things straight back towards a more extrovert dancefloor, unleashing a distorted hoovering bassline that literally growls beneath squeaky-sounding hi-hat programming and sudden bursts of processed noise, in what’s easily this EP’s most ferocious moment. A characteristically eclectic EP from Slidebar that’s well worth tracking down.
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2011/ ... ecordings/
