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Meltdown

Chromefreak | 10/29/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the music you'll screw to as the fires of the nuclear winter cleanse the flotsam and jetsam of this toilet earth. When you're dying in the fallout of the radioactive rain, the malevolent rhythms of songs like "Touch of Evil" and "Spread the Virus" will remind you that the human race is, after all, just a footnote in the long, long story of the universe. Red Mecca isn't art; rather, it's the absence of any pretension to artistry. Red Mecca isn't culturally significant; rather, it's the abnegation of culture itself. Like Orwell's 1984, Red Mecca says it plainly and succinctly: if you want an image of the future, think of a boot stamping on a human face forever. Essential listening for the new dark age that is already upon us...and passed."

Mecca

Lovblad | Geneva, Switzerland | 08/17/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"While it ranks high overall in what they have done, this is maybe not the place to start if you want to get in Cabaret Voltaire. It was still in their real avant-garde electronic phase and remains difficult and challenging today."