Review: Given the frequent appearance of new 12" singles from The Exaltics - the most familiar pseudonym of German electro/techno/experimental veteran Robert Witschakowski - it's a surprise to find that The Girl & The Chameleon is his first full-length for two years. Largely dark, intense, creepy and floor-friendly, it offers a range of thumping acid techno and electro workouts, interspersed with occasional ambient interludes and musical curveballs. It's arguably these surprise additions, rather than those dancefloor cuts in his tried-and-tested formula, which bring the album alive. Check, for example, the raw 303 lines, bold bleeps and breakbeats of the early Meat Beat Manifesto style madness of "The Chase", and the drowsy, pitched-down intelligent techno revivalism of "No Way Back"; both are superb.
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