Mentallo & The Fixer: Burnt Beyond Recognition
- Tachyon
- Crypto-Anarchist
- Mother of Harlots
- Goliath
- Radiant
- Crypto-Anarchist (The Second Death)
- The Enlightenment
- Lightyear
- False Prophets
- Other World Technology
- Abandon All Hope
Mentallo & The Fixer return with their first full length album in years,
unfortunately it will probably disappoint many fans. Instead of moving in a
more aggressive direction, the Dassing brothers have chosen to stress more of
the melodic portion of their music this time around. Personally, I think it
gives a great deal more personality and passion to the music as well as showing
off some rather excellent programming skills. However, those people looking for
heavily laden vocal samples or a lot of strong lyrical tracks are just out of
luck. "Burnt Beyond Recognition is almost totally bereft of vocals samples and
in the handful of tracks that actually have lyrics, the vocal sections are used
more as another instrument then as true vocals. As a result the album is full
of rather complex instrumental pieces that exhibit the duo's rather impressive
collection of electronic instruments, but do little to appease the club crowd.
Overall, I think that perhaps this is for the best, because it means that Gary
and Dwayne Dassing are still making music for themselves and not for drooling
fanboys who yearn for the next club hit single.
Mentallo & The Fixer are: Gary & Dwayne Dassing
Contact:
Metropolis Records
P.O. Box 54307
Philadelphia, PA 19105
E-mail: metropol@voicenet.com
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