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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must if you like it tough, 7 Jan 2005
It's somewhere between midnight and six a.m. It's dark. It's sweaty. It's crowded. You're slightly shitting your pants at the size of the two bouncers who have just answered your knock on the door to the club underneath the railway arches. Condensation drips from the walls, and base wallops into you as you join heaving dance floor.When you think it can't get any better the DJ drops one of the biggest records you have ever heard. Somewhere between a Commodore 64 score and European tech house thumper, it's a blend of super tough electronica, static and raw bashed up beats: It's Alter Ego, and the crowd goes bananas. The track was 'Rocker' and the club was Dovebridge studios. Sadly only the record is revisitible, as the club has closed, and it remains a gem. It's distinctive demented escalating high pitched wine over a supercharged tight driving melody is the first in a selection of great, thumping, techno records on this treat of an album. With at least two other crackers ('Beat The Bush' and the title track 'Transphormer') and no fillers, this record is just as good for playing parties as in your headphones. It's not going to transform (sorry) the music world with its innovation or its variation between tracks but it will chew you up and spit you out if you give it a chance. Enough energy to chuck you around your bedroom, and enough firepower to keep the crowds heads down till dawn in a club. Dark, dirty and rough - a must if you like it tough.
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