Search - Evil Nine :: Fabric Live 28

An Evil 9 out of 10

Fink! | Lawton, OK USA | 12/05/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, first off, there is no Goa or Psy-Trance on this disc. Anywhere. And I swear to you I didn't accidentally flick it off the plastic or drop it out of the cool tin this insane mix comes housed in.



I found Evil Nine thanks (twice) to Crystal Method, as they were featured on both their Community Service II mix and their very well done soundtrack to the bathroom heartbreaker "London." Then I picked up their remix of UNKLE's "Reign." Then I picked up their remix of Moby's "Raining Again." Then I picked up this.



The biggest problem I have with Amazon when I'm scouting new artists to electro-pop my eardrums out with is that ANYBODY can post a review of any disc without any credentials, any discretion, or any idea what the hell they're talking about. So I check out this Evil Nine offering and somebody slaps "Goa" on them like a glob of Nickelodeon Gak. This is not Goa. Man With No Name is Goa. Early Juno Reactor is Goa.



This mix is very electro, very experimental, very technical, and very very close to spilling over onto the bizzare side, much like a lot of the Fabric sets (check out the Death In Vegas mix if you don't believe me). Most of the tracks on here have such killer basslines, your sub-woofer might put a restraining order on you. Of it's highest offerings, we get Riton's dubwork on The Mystery Jets "The Boy Who Ran Away" (my personal highlight), an exclusive (pretty much) Digitalism mix of Daft Punk's "Technologic" (previously available only on vinyl or on paycheck devastating Japanese import), and the sickest work over Franz Ferdinand will ever get by Justice (trust me...insane). On the not so up side, we get a lot of "inbetweeny" tracks, as the disc peaks early by track 6 (Riton!), and not again until Daft Punk pops up, and most of the tracks between there offer intense bass, but not much else, aside from noises out of techno left field that you'll never catch anywhere else. They're not annoying though. The screeching vocals on the Test Icicles (haha) track are annoying. The two closing tracks are straight up nostalgia; Freeland's headbanging mix of 80's classic "Nowhere Girl" (also available unmixed on "Future Retro" on Rhino Records) and, curisouly enough, an unremixed "London Calling" from The Clash (I might have closed it with the Freeland mix). Most tracks are mixed out after five minutes or less, so Evil Nine dodges the audio monotony that most DJ mixes sink into.



Pick up this mix if you enjoy previous work from Evil Nine, if you can't stand sitting still, and if you enjoy exposing your sensitive ears a full battery attack.



Don't pick it up if you love Goa or Psy-Trance. Beacause there isn't any."