FluiD - Envisioning Abstraction: the Duality of FluiD - CD (2012)

Labels: Alrealon
Review by: Captain Fidanza

This is about as varied a release as I’ve ever received from Collective and rather wonderfully it namechecks Dalek on the press-release. Sadly, it’s not as good as Dalek whose 2004 album “œAbsence” album is one of the finest rap albums of the last decade.

However, whilst being inferior to one of the artists referenced on the full-colour piece of paper which accompanied the album, this does venture out into new territory which at times raises it above the lazy comparisons which press-releases often encourage.

The phrase “œindustrial soundscapes” usually brings to mind nothing more than two unemployed idiots playing with a drum machine in an abandoned garage, but here it speaks of a dense world of unpleasantness which black-helmeted biker gangs habitually ride their motorcycles through in various post-apocalyptic films of the 1980s.

Do you do soundtrack?