PANZERBOY666

5tracks

7”, Dhyana

Whenever someone adds style and humour to a genre, the result is above average with a certain higher probability. Being able to do that, one has to have a profound knowledge of the genre one is operating in, and the guts to take that knowledge and turn it around. Or at least, twist it a little. That is what track b1 and b2 do – a rather “usual” drum’n’bass-noise-track is layered with cut-up vocals that are still reminders of something, e.g. Seventies-MOR-rock, but have gone through the mixer big time. Moreover, there seems to be a strong connection between sub-layer and the deconstructed vocal-toppings. Often all you get is an obvious effect, a trick easily seen through. Here, the ingredients fit and that is another plus.

Mixing stuff in a funny way without falling into the blunt-joke-variety-type, the shaving-daddy’s-back-genre for instance, is an art that Panzerboy666 also manages in its visual style. Just take the name. Take the teddybear with the pentagram on the tank on the cover. Or take songtitles like “this is a track not an alcoholic problem.” Get what I mean?

Only one track, a3, stands out from the others, with its harsh, germanic techno-beat and echoing death-metal growling in the background. But, since the vocals here are done by a certain Jean Bach and another person called Springová, I guess, I get the joke. Here is where the slogan “Death to false metal!” suddenly makes sense. Two tracks were mixed at littlebrutalravebastards-studios and you should check out their homepage. Personally, I like side b better, and usually I listen to it first. Then I listen to side a and then to side b over again. But if you have a taste for something different and the tongue to taste something not as polished as your usual digital avant-house, try this.