hands up who’s fed up with me chuntering on about john carpenter? tough. coz as much as the mans movie light’s fading under the harsh gaze of decades-old genius and hideous reboots the soundtrack stuff continues it’s seeping creepy (or should that be seepy creeping?) influence.

latest highpoint lowlifers rare villains have just released new disc embezzlementals. i s’pose you could call it instrumental hip hop. personally i find that all kinds of oxymoronic confusing. like if someone came up with a capella metal. or wordless opera. but it is what is. and what it is, is a collection of beats and synth lines with a real exploitation bent to it all. part carpenter score, part east coast clack and squelch.

has that unsettling minimalism, not horror unsettling, not sci-fi unsettling, but the 3am urban fear of a city alive and devouring. there could be a story, one of concrete and petty crime and rubbish-strewn streets patrolled by mildly feral youngsters. like it should come with warriors sprayed across the front in red paint…

kindof an assault on precinct thirteen mixed with wu-tang clan thang. i’m digging the hardnosed but wheezy woozy rza style production, like having a headfulla dramamine and cigarsmoke. or weed… s’all jittering jeep beats, snare and high-hat and wonky korg melodies played out with trashy nighttime vibe and hazy post-something easing-off winding-down euphoria.

cracking!

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and as a bonus easter treat i came across this dutch review on their blog, fed it into babelfish and this is the highlights of what it spewed back out. somehow gibberish yet makes complete (un)sense at the same time:

for a reviewer it is rather stretching a disc in the bus, get where he nothing concerning weet. surprised is, as it happens, a good rare in the music industry and that makes listening to the debut of strange villains embezzlementals all the tense. concerning from amsterdam producer two-high rolling mill still complete little has been confessed, except the fact that them nevertheless deals cv with very records with the small hight lowlife record from london has been possible close. it is for hip-hop producers frequently cumbersome an instrumental album bring out without the auditor gets the feeling that he to halfproduct listens. to get round this strange villains – for a making one’s debut act – take thus a large risk. instead of proving catching bonte beats, the average more quickly fresh concerning can dig, tries them with what quieter productions attractive an album to make. and even if at first consonances becomes clearly why this plate fell at the british label in the taste. low, grim electronic tones outline that to dark sfeertje in a nice manner during the numbers present remain. on embezzlementals music frequently bald, but certainly does not sound on a negative manner; with detail work weet strange villains to the quiet beats in the form of a certain feeling contents to give. dripping water at harmony, subtle wind puffs at status angry or simply goedgeplaatst computerbliepje at walk which does more for the track then a wirwar of sounds. dychoned – one of the less dark beats of embezzlementals – let clearly hear that strange villains also particular well catching melodies nevertheless give weet to produce and their own turn. toch the strong embezzlementals know minuses also its; on some tracks the producer two-high rolling mill beats the beam wrong. thus 264591 and east berlin not seem bald, but rather empty: the shortage to sounds accentuates the drums, which sometimes what simply sounds, as a result of which the auditor on a voice continues wait which music must help a hand. moreover the plate does not obtain the thirty minutes, as a result of which it for a complete album nevertheless ietwat look sparingly and in fact more has length of ep. the tracks – which seldom pass the three minutes – had had, but one number or had two more embezzlementals exactly what the more feeling of more than one snack given. toch strange villains can look back satisfied on embezzlementals. the two-high rolling mill has taken a risk by producing no popular bombastic beats, and this is not without success. music is not oppressive, but nevertheless strong present. the subtle implementation of details the plate speaks its unique sound in the advantage of strange villains and gives. with embezzlementals strange villains have let hear that it has certainly its own sound, but to run through to ietwat larger public the cross-belt also for rappers must will produce.