Sublight Records SLR901
I first heard of Enduser when I received a promo-copy of the album 'From Zero' from the ant-zen mai office. As far as it is technical possible I played the CD until it was greyed out, awesome! The music is upbeat, happy, humoristic, here and there a bit melancholic, gorgeously produced, in short: everything a Bauke really loves!
Endusers actual name is Lynn Standafer and he is a reasonably productive person. Last year at Maschinenfest I got myself the 'Bollywood Breaks' 12" and since then he already released 3 or 4 others. So because I don't know all he did it's hard to describe his musical development.
Compared to 'From Zero' (from Mirex' point of view just 2 releases ago) this CD is much more mature, more straightforward in sound, while on the composition side of things it is much more complex and varied. Hip-hop, trip-hop, breakcore, wave, new beat, filmscores, you can hear everything - and if it's not a full track, at least there are some very clear influences.
The way in which the piano-loops (horrormovies? ancient hardrock intros? Coil, Swans, The God Machine?) transpose to laidback trip-hop rhythms, how haunted jungle suddenly appears to be hip-hop, where did I hear that before ...
Enduser is what breakcore is all about, and not only breakcore, he is the personification of the new way of making music. You know you've heard it before, maybe you even recognize it, but Enduser turns it into something new.
This CD was released through Sublight Records, a vinyl version (double 12") through Mirex. And yes, this is one you definitly should have :-)
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