 Derbe Respect, Alder
2003
CD/LP
Staubgold
Shellshock
45:52 Stewart Gott
16 March 2004 experimental industrial | Sometimes things that shouldn't work just do. Take for example this collaboration between the veteran German industrialist outfit Faust and New Jersey hip hop trio Dalek. Maybe I just like things to stick to categories. If I'm going to listen to rap music then I'll pick out Eminem or Ol' Dirty Bastard. If I want Krautrock then I'll plump for a night in with Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze. The merging of the genres has as much appeal as mixing porridge and pork chops, or wearing snowshoes on the beach. So much for the blinkers, this record is that rare example of a collaboration between artists from radically different corners of the musical universe achieving significantly more than the sum total of its parts. Faust dispense with their noodling and deliver a full on set of brutal, focussed rock music, scuzzy at the edges, tripping over itself in its urge to carry the fight. This relentless assault is augmented by Still's awesome turntablism, and the bitter ranting of MC Dalek - together in the mix churning out a frothing rancid stew of noise, with a beat like a bludgeon, howling with rancour. This is a genuinely dark record, that carries with it pain and fury and resentful, toe-curling misery - no more so than with the gut wrenching 'Dead Lies', or the repeated blows to a bruise that constitute the nightmarish 'Bullets Need Violence'. This is indeed a violent record, a headlong journey in to danger.The closest thing I've heard to this is Ice's "Bad Blood", but even that is not as relentless as this. It doesn't matter if you don't usually buy hip-hop, or if you don't like artists old enough to be your father, if you like the dark side then you'll like this. A vision of Hell made flesh. Merciless. |
