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Selected review excerpts Reptile Sweat Accelerator EP (Perl45)
The "Reptile Sweat Accelator" EP (Perlon always come with the crazee titles) offers two extended cuts "Komodo Dragons (Narcotic Boost)" and "Cowabunga" the former as straight as Perlon gets these days if you accept the ghostly harmonics, tropical sound torrents, sub acid throbs and grimy chords. Of course insane lyrics abound (…). This stays for "Cowabunga" where the pace drops but the insanity keeps up where more live sounding beats infiltrate the spoken word vocals. This goes off the diving board of weird house but it's still utterly Perlon, this sounds like nothing else. All this and Rashad Becker does his best ever Perlon run out groove picture story. Bring it!
Those who have traced Narcotic Syntax know that their sounds tend to get very arcane, very granular, tricky, nevertheless they have their feet firmly on the ground and are able to rock. The A-side (…), almost pop-ish for Narcotic Syntax, doesn't hesitate
becoming exactly what we love about them, namely (…) a lively Funk bastard that prefers bending the sequences 5 times around the corner. The flipside plays around with grooves that remind me a bit of 2Step meets freestyle Jazz. In addition, there are spoken words
that presumably will make all Jazzanova fans mad because of its brazen deepness. ••••• out of 5 Phreakin' minimal & bassheavy track!! James Dean Brown from the Techno revolution beyond the marks detached towards "Komodo Dragons", brillant. DJ and producer James Dean Brown and musician/producer yapacc return to devastate the dance floors with their Electro Disco pump. The Chile-Germany connection continues marking style, and on this EP they even do it with a voice! Guaranteed fresh tricky House w/spoken male vox. Excellent intelligent ultra groovy Tech House tracks. Perlon is such a label one would die for if necessary. Once again James Dean Brown invites to experience his favoured bizarre sound universe, and delivers on "Reptile Sweat Accelerator" two new tracks exhibiting his typical signature of digressive rhythm progressions, fragmented beats, wildpitch factor and a well-dosed breeze of "in spite of everything"-catchiness.
Raveline recommends: That (Calculated Extravagant Licentiousness) EP was the best thing I bought last year. Amazing. I just picked up the new one last week (Reptile Sweat Accelerator) – more crazyness. Damned funky slice of Techno/House vibes from the Perlon crew. This is more overtly housey in a similar way to the Morane single yet manages to retain a super deep minimalism which fits perfectly with the label. Superbly groovy music for the dancefloor. "Reptile Sweat Accelerator" by Narcotic Syntax indicates in which interesting direction the music of Markus Nikolai's label is currently developing: a fairly unique and novel vision of discoid Pop music in which vocals and the traditional, abstractly
minimal Perlon textures conjoin to intoxicating Funk. Excellent minimal Funk House groover! Fresh, tricky House always guarenteed from Perlon and the Narcotic Syntax duo. Check out the killer lounge vocal of "Komodo Dragons", while "Cowabunga!" can claim to be the first minimal cut to cross surf music and psychedelics! Brilliant as
always. While some artists reduce their tracks to microhouse skeletons, James Dean Brown and yapacc add multitudes of exotica to their Narcotic Syntax EPs. Their premiere 'macrohouse' outing, Calculated Extravagant Licentiousness, coupled burbling bass lines and shiny
hi-hats with surreal accounts from lady Winter on one side and Japanese recitations on the other. Not to be outdone, Reptile Sweat Accelerator finds the Narcotic duo overhauling the enchantingly bizarre retro-lounge track "Komodo Dragons" by 'glamorous easy
listening' outfit Misty Roses (DJ/programmer Jonny Perl and one-time Morricone Youth chanteuse Robert Conroy). In their percolating "narcotic boost" treatment, Brown and yapacc retain the plaintive vocal (as well as the ghoulishly quivering chant that opens
the song) but exchange the original's hypnotic bossa nova for burbling dance grooves plus a jazz-funk keyboard duel between Max Loderbauer and yapacc. With James Dean Brown's laid-back paean to the world's wave conquerors recited over a rich 'surf house' brew of
seductive bass lines and rollicking funk beats, the flip's ten-minute "Cowabunga!" is the perfect complement to Winter's smooth rap on Calculated's "Electric Liquid". No microsound here: the tracks on Reptile Sweat Accelerator are as imposing and
unusual as any 3-meter Indonesian lizard.
A thrilled testimonial Narcotic Syntax – "Cowabunga!"
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