Unusual Systems Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Unusual Systems returns with their seventh release, a 12” single with sides shared between pushers Corp and Cavalry Stone. Traversing the wastes of bolshy Italo and new beat, and lending both an apocalyptic flair, opener ’The End Of The Days’ seems to sonically describe as much through its use of massive gate-snares, janky ascendant riffs, and trancelike string-n-stab breakdowns. Allegedly: Yamaha RM1x as main sequencer, Kawai K1, EMU Xtreme Lead, Quasimidi Techno X and Ensoniq DP/4 as fx processor. Master direct recorded to a Tascam 424 Mk1 cassette tape recorder. 0 daw or software used. Impressive! The B is brought up rawly and raggedly by Spanish duo Cavalry Stone, who match the A’s eerie melodic aura with a similarly strange lo-fi electro cut, sounding originally bound for cassette.

Review: Four electroclash / Italo dancefloor bangers recovered from the vaults of electro producer 'Konerytmi' under his alias 'The Klash’. Mixing contempoary sounds with samples and motifs reminiscent of the TV docs, newscasts and movie soundtracks of the 1980s, ‘Disko Varasto A’ is a boxy, arpy cascader of blipping synths plucks, flatulent basses, and gated snares, best represented by the airtight, hermetic melodic wave machine of a track that is ‘1982’.