{"id":392,"date":"2007-01-03T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2007-01-03T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T19:10:06","slug":"plus-device-puncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"plus device &#8211; puncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">electro. electro. electro.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">released on the ever impressive chicago based  <EM>hefty records<\/EM> label, this beautifully packaged album revisits those old  <EM>sleeping bag record<\/EM> productions, as well as a few old school minimal  dark and heavy acid house records.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">sometimes the results are superb, the  <STRONG>kraftwerk<\/STRONG>-esque moods of <EM>body heat <\/EM>being a prime  example, and sometimes the choice of the synth noises are a little too close to  the less interesting cliches of the genre. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">when the vibe is more raw and dirty, things are a  lot more enjoyable, so much so that even when the normally offputting booty bass  groove influences the party the results still work some kind of illicit magic,  especially during the delicately titled, <EM>sexual harassment <\/EM>which seems  to be having a dig at the genre while the machines do all manner of&nbsp;wobble  inducing chaos.&nbsp;but, for me, the highlight has to be the fantastic  minimal&nbsp;pulsations of&nbsp;<EM>our pleasures,  <\/EM>which<EM>&nbsp;<\/EM>features sinister slowed down vocals from the so called  <EM>creepy autograph <\/EM>recalling some of the more noir aspect of the original  acid house movement that predated all that smiley face rubbish, the track is a  wonderful exercise in reviving an oft forgotten era of dance music, but  with&nbsp;the new edge in the production,&nbsp;the results very special  indeed.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">while not a drop dead classic (too many tracks  meander and dont have any punch), <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the album is a  rather fine slice of midi fuelled fun, which will have you regretting the day  you chucked those old streetsounds\/electro compilations out, or, were you never  that foolish ? <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plusdevice.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>hefty records<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.heftyrecords.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>electro. electro. electro. released on the ever impressive chicago based hefty records label, this beautifully packaged album revisits those old sleeping bag record productions, as well as a few old school minimal dark and heavy acid house records.&nbsp; sometimes the results are superb, the kraftwerk-esque moods of body heat being a prime example, and sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}