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Oscillator in Distortion The Mad Capsule Markets |
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If the name don't strike ya, the deafening effects of "Tribe" surely will… all the while now we're keeping in mind that they're from Japan where things haven't been this disturbing since the resilient nation first rid themselves of Godzilla and friends! The Mad Capsule Markets come at ya with the force of a monsoon… they are technicians of terror, a roaring tsunami heading straight for the shoreline of complacency, and they are Japanese innovators, much like we've had with our own NIN or Ministry in years past, theirs is a grand design to transcend boundaries, both nationally and musically, for once the bloated drum n' bass effects of the heavy techno riot-gun opening tracks have a chance to channel through your auditory senses, "Pulse" breaks through another barrier of expectation and rages away in a blur of heavily fed Punk Rock distortion and catchy melodies… three songs later and "All The Time In Sunny Beach" does the same, even having prepared yourselves for a little sun and fun, like shark-jumping and woefully missing the mark. So far it looks like the Japanese have been listening. They've eaten up just about anything produced on the Western front and now one of their own, now nine albums in, brings da noise to an audience devoid of anything late of a modern marvel with the frighteningly dull thuds of newcomers gone, forgotten, and in some cases regurgitated in sometimes unsettling terms here-"Restart!" Equal to the pioneering Animotion video techniques in every respect, groundbreaking in spite of ourselves, and honorably done in English though it matters little, voices speak in tongues woven in circuitry and psycho-babble as the drowning effects of industrialized motion, Heavy Metal distort and electrolyte particles flying out of control give birth to new sensations you never knew existed. Released by Palm Records Review by Vinnie Apicella
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