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Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass

  • AMG Review of Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass

    Amg
    John Bush
    All Music Guide

    Affectionately playing up the age of hardcore, the title track of Cylob's Cut the Midrange, Drop the Bass features a vocoder robot repeating a variety of ave/hardcore tag lines, including "ride on the rhythm," "pump up the volume," "jack to the sound of the underground," and "don't stop until the break of day" over some mid-tempo drill'n'bass. The B-sides "With This Ring" and "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?" are similarly vocoderized pastiches, with some good drum programming but a little too much of the nudge-nudge buffoonery championed by defiantly unintelligent dance producers like Aphex Twin or Kid 606.

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