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Title: A jagged but addictive listen
Review: This is a puzzling CD. It sounds like minimal techno, acid house, 8-bit Tetris synths, and vocal-driven deep house put in a blender that can't quite liquefy. Producers like Dub Taylor and Luomo do this stuff smoothly, but it's real jagged here. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. There are few things like grooving along to cool hipster Kompakt techno, and then getting hit in the face by male divas and house pianos. The brazen juxtaposition of analog and electronic elements is charming, though, and strangely addictive. It's kind of like reading Vice magazine's photo issue - after a while, one almost gets used to pictures of people wearing only tube socks. Almost.
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