Vital Weekly: The Cursed Species
The Berlin based Ad Noiseam label specializes in various kinds of electronic dance related music, be it breakcore, be it hip hop or be it clicks and cuts. Their recent autumn campaign shows these various interests very well. Somehow I missed out the first CD by CDatakill, aka Zak Roberts, but ‘The Crushed Species’ leaves a good impression, even when I am not a lover of breakcore per se. If I decide I would like to hear breakcore it should be in a concert hall with the amps turned up in a way I can’t do at home. Then it makes much more sense. But listening to Cdatakill on my set of simple speakers at home may not be the real thing, I did enjoy the broken drum & bass beats, but above the somewhat darker undertones, hoovering below this set of beats. As said, I haven’t delved the genre to the bottom, so I couldn’t possibly say wether this is an original set of breakcore, or following standards. Quite nice for a change.
