{"id":636,"date":"2007-07-04T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2007-07-04T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:20:05","slug":"hexstatic-when-robots-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"hexstatic – when robots go bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

last time round the hexstatic<\/STRONG> boys went for the full on audio-visual excess, with the album having an accompanying dvd of 3d video grafx. given certain circumstances, i suspect it was quite a headfuck and could be said to be superfluous to the music on offer.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
this time round they have gone back to their well known electro roots and just focused on their collection of analogue noise making toys, and synth pads to create a rather wonderful set of timewarped tunes.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
using a consistent palette of sounds throughout, the album has a solid 80s electro-funk sound that fans of les digitales rhymes<\/STRONG> will lap up. <\/FONT>of course, this could also attract the naysayer’s giving it the its all been done to death <\/EM>accusations, but let’s ignore them, and just enjoy the loops on offer.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
the album opens with a great triple bill including the superb goldfrap<\/STRONG>-esque roll over <\/EM>, as exposed on the recent 12″ sampler, so its not until later in we get to new material. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
of which, the mad sequencing of the paul hardcastle sounding prom night party <\/EM>is a perfect slice of early rave pop that will have boys and girls gyrating in all the rights night spots, and tlc <\/EM>descends into a frazzling intelligent d-n-b after a rather nice ambient opening. the hard stereo phased vocoder parts make headphone listening a dizzying experience to say the least.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
move on <\/EM>feature uk rap future stars, profisee and ema j, <\/EM>on top of the sparkling production, but doesn’t gel in quite the same way as his appearance on the hilarious subway, <\/EM>in which profisee <\/EM>goes on about the underground, and hits  vocal perfection where his style interacts with the jittering synths in such a way that it makes for an addictive hook heavy combination. <\/FONT>from this urban hitter, we get the completely superficial, ed banger <\/STRONG>styled mash of dirty analogue noises with lab rat interlude<\/EM>, with added distorted vocoders to make for a fun few minutes in which someone harps on about being like a lab rat<\/EM>. not exactly deep and meaningful, but a lot of fun. which is more than can be said for the final section of the album, the instrumental newtons cradle <\/EM>and newaves, <\/EM>that feel to drifts on with their love for clipped digital presets, and don’t really connect for some reason, all the usual ingredients are there, but i don’t feel them. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
thankfully, though the album closes on a blinding finale, with the welcome return of the bleep we can at last throw our arms in the air and rejoice, especially as the bleep is strapped onto a huge justice <\/STRONG>pilfering track, bust. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
a simple but effective keyboard riff, a vocal snippet here, an s’express<\/STRONG> sample there (probably not s’express, but hey – you get the picture!), with even a klaxon appearing in the mix, and that’s it jobs done, except for the needed speak-n-spell <\/EM>sample advising see you next time, <\/EM><\/FONT>and for all the slight concerns that the album is not exactly breaking any new ground, and in fact often re-treads several well worn paths, i genuinely look forward to it.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
more detail<\/EM> : here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

last time round the hexstatic boys went for the full on audio-visual excess, with the album having an accompanying dvd of 3d video grafx. given certain circumstances, i suspect it was quite a headfuck and could be said to be superfluous to the music on offer. this time round they have gone back to their […]<\/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-636","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\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}