Electronic Music World: Paradise / Brazilian Nightmare
Before this album, I only knew Cdatakill from the split 12″ with Minion on Eupholus and a few seperate tracks I heard. My main idea of Cdatakill’s music therefore was that it was quite breakcore-ish. This album completely proved me wrong. Paradise does have it’s influences of breakcore, but combines that in an awesome way with very melodic elements, beautiful atmospheric spheres, and a variation that seems to not fit in with standard breakcore. The whole first disc has a consistent sound, with all the tracks having that one thing that seems to make this disc but that you can’t really point out. Even the various remixes on the disc, by such artists as Somatic Responses, Tarmvred and Detritus, fit in well with the whole. This scared me at first, since the remixes are not all put at the end of the disc but instead placed as 5th, 9th and 11th track. But they fit in, they blend in with the rest of the disc. My personal favorites of this disc are without a doubt Division and Take Us out of the Dark, that seem to fit together perfectly, and just have something that makes me love em. And if Paradise wasn’t a surprise for me already, the second disc of this release, Brazilian Nightmare, would definately surprise me. The second disc has in no way whatsoever to do with breakcore or similar music. It is beautiful, eerie and atmospheric ambient. Often dark, though not always. But definately very different from Paradise. This is not a disc to just have a listen to though, this is a disc that you have to sit down for, that you have to really listen to. It guides you into it’s own world and makes you it’s own. It could make a perfect soundtrack for a movie. The only downside of the second disc are the remixes at the end. tracks 14, 15 and 16 truely break the whole disc with their highly rhythmic and noisey sound. They are, according to the tracklisting in the sleeve, Bonus Tracks, but still, they are out of place. I’d rather have had the disc without the bonus tracks… All in all, this release is a nice release. Very surprising to me, but that might also be because I haven’t really been looking into Cdatakill more so far. It is most definately worth the $14.50 that Ad Noiseam is asking for it…. for you get two wonderful discs.
