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Selected review excerpts Calculated Extravagant Licentiousness EP (Perl39)
Killer tight Perlon Swing 4/4 track, slinky bass licks and all. "Romantic Infinity" has latin boogaloo samples and a cavernous vocal touch, tight like a gnats ass plus much better than any recent Señor Coconut work. Quite a trip (…) Very dense and warped beats and sounds flicker behind the eyelids, as if one has eventually kept on the wired contact lenses and would have dozed off once again. Such dreams are the result of that kind of improvidence (…) No-frills Microhouse, overshooting the mark, which one rocks with pleasure whenever feeling like mashing the floor. Killer release. Ultra dry and funky down to the last detail. ••••• out of 5 Ultraphat minimal Techphunk trax. Tip! Rest assured, the record will be warping your cerebral cortex. Psychotic and totally danceable. A new pearl. "The Drumpads Of Jericho" turns out to be a force not to be expected like this. When the bass line comes in after the first half of the track, it is definitely clear that this is a hit which nobody should miss any more. Fantastic! Guaranteed fresh House cuts w/a strong club appeal - HIT! Another winning release on Perlon. My favourite single Perlon release though is the astonishing Narcotic Syntax EP, three tracks of the most joyful, curious, beguiling Microhouse you'll ever hear, including possibly the only recorded use in Microhouse of the word "blimey!". Yes! do it… one of my fav perlon tracks. that swinging latin and echo'd drum sound just gets the people moving around the floor.
the kinda tune that makes people put one arm up in the air and jump on one leg. I just call it Ketamine Glam and I love it. I absolutely loved the release. It is by far the most original, dope new record I've gotten lately. I really liked the idea of having short stories overtop of the tracks. Japanese narrations featured!!! A huge impact track. You surely feel it's different. It is an excessive mind trip to which James Dean Brown and yapacc invite right at the beginning of their new Perlon EP. Simply great! Solid gold with sexy vocals. (…) I am SOOO in love with this release! "The Drumpads Of Jericho" is an EPIC track. Filthy yet clean, sparse yet dense, sexy female vocals, phat as fuck in the middle and to top it off it gets all schaffel at the end – the perfect transition track for all your 6/8 Köln madness. But to single that track out alone would be unfair – all three tracks are K I L L E R. Unique sounds which should move even the most stiff hips in a wiggling kind of way. Wicked. Slamming Techno House with a killer vocal and funky percussive workout, with a killer set of melodies across all 3 tracks. One of the best releases on Perlon in a while. The beat, groovy 'n' tight, and the bass sound with beautiful and charming synth loops over the sexually attractive English voice lead you to "Electric Liquid". On the other side you'll find unique breakbeats with eccentric Japanese speech and mechanical riffs. You can taste thrill and sensational arrangements on all 3 tracks. Absolute recommendation! 3 deep tracks that give the lie to this music's common Microhouse classification; if anything, Macrohouse would be more apropros. The mechanistic array of drums and hi-hats churns underneath throughout, eventually lumbering the 12" to a lascivious close. Let's hope the full-length planned for late 2004 sparkles as brightly. As the title implies, the 3 tracks extravagantly avail of luscious bass lines as well as daringly calculated architecture in 4/4 measure, which exclusively aim at lifting the listener off his statics. Maximum Funk for the floor. A boiling basement of sound surfaces pulsating like water, that are enriched with shredded sound snippets. "Romantic Infinity" is an upbeat Martini party Jazz affair with an intoxicating bassline to boot. Another body caressing funkster which refuses to let you stop dancing until the end. A sure late night affair to get the dancefloor up and social at the
feet. Narcotic Syntax have printed their lyrics on the inner sleeve. They kinda remind of those hyperreal, semi-meta, semi-cyber writings on the sleeves of Fortran 5 or Andrew Weatherall releases. Musically, "Electric Liquid" is one of those typical Perlon grooves, sounding funky via the elasticity of rubber gloves rubbing a balloon, while "Romantic Infinity" is built along the lines of a Latin Jazz sample. The delivery of the prose lyrics by Winter, however, gives both songs a bit of an alienated Flying Lizards feel as well. "Electric Liquid" is everything we expect in a Perlon track and more, a funky dancefloor mover based around a sultry, decadent female spoken word vocal, flashing hats and Lil Mark-like bassline Funk. Cut-Funk fans will drool over "The Drumpads Of Jericho" with its narcotic blend of bass, crisp percussion and sleazy funk. A very good 12" from an excellent label that people are starting to get the message about. Spoken word lyrics in English and Japanese combined with ultra funky drum programming, all held together by some wicked live bass lines. Recommended. Station towards the apcalypse on the floor.
Two thrilled testimonials Narcotic Syntax – "Calculated Extravagant Licentiousness EP" Narcotic Syntax – "The Drumpads of Jericho"
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