(01.25.06) I have been waiting for this; I put it straight in my Top 10 even if I had heard only the clips on the Sublight site. I was damn right, but still I had not idea of how good this release would be. First, there are four brand new tunes by Enduser and then the same tracks remixed by some people you’ve probably heard of. The originals are without a shadow of a doubt the most amazing material ever produced by Enduser: perfect jungle music, with the roughest breaks, the craziest cutups and the most powerful basslines. The title track sets the pace for this relentless journey into breakcore realms, “Wisdom 05” plays with the contrast between eerie vocals and a reece bass somewhat reminiscent of Bad Company’s anthemic “The Nine.” “Kill It” is a massive conglomerate of scrambled snare-rushes that guarantees furious head-banging, and “Path Of Violence” rattles and rumbles with angry screams, thick bass and rolling percussions.
If you think this is nasty, you aren’t ready for what comes next. There’s Richard Devine remixing Enduser: I mean, it’s a combo as sick as Natalie Portman covered with chocolate. In the span of four minutes you get a summary of fifteen years of dance music, distilled and condensed into a gabber hammer, accelerated with junglist breaks and corroded with acid techno. The amount of sound that Richie is able to pile up between two beats at hundreds of BPM’s is simply ludicrous. Don’t even think it’s over, though. Submerged goes very techno acid too, even daring to go straight four-to-the-floor, a nice surprise and a stunning result. Panacea is instead very classical, his rework doesn’t go much further than Enduser’s sound, retaining the rude breakcore flavour he’s world renowned for. Finally Datach’i appplies to “Wisdom 05” his frantic amen’ized style we appreciated in The Elements, closing a mini album that sets a quality standard for breakcore. I mentioned Submerged before Datach’i because my copy is clearly incorrect, but the different styles are instantly recgnizeable, so don’t waste time reading stuff and crank this ASAP.
The End is out now on Sublight.
