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Artist: BROKEN CULTURE
Album: Ideophobia
Year: 2007
Broken Culture is a solo project of a dude named Dave
Mosicant from the U.S.A. I got to know this stuff when
the “The Horrible Sounds In My Head” EP was released. As
the review of that EP witnesses, I was quite surprised
and positive about that particular release, although it
didn’t manage to reach the yearlist. For 2007, Dave will
try again to enter the yearlists with the release of his
new album “Ideophobia”. This one contains nine tracks
and is about 22 and a half minutes long.
After the ‘Experiment’-al intro (have a look at the
tracklist for the word joke), the song ‘Skee?’ kicks off.
This is a very electro based track, with pitched vocals
and catchy sampling. ‘Mr. Liar and his Cult’, the next
track, is a song about God, or ‘God’ if you wish. This
song contains sampling that reminds me to the works of
Diabolos Rising (now Raism), which is definitely a
compliment. This mixed with the known vocal works of
this project turned this song into my favourite one of
the release. ‘Control’ contains a so-called ‘heart’-beat
and dark, electronic sampling. Although this song is
quite easy listening, it might be able to scare some
four year old children who are alone in a bassment at
night. The next two tracks are instrumental ones, and
‘Disease M-E’ is the one that follows. This song has
some sampling that sounds quite familiar (once, a trance
group called Darude used this kind of sampling a lot).
Overall, this song sounds a little flat and even gets a
bit boring in the end, which is quite a pity. ‘Variety’
is an instrumental intermezzo again, which brings us to
the last track called ‘Euthanasia’. This is again a cool
and easy listening EBM likely track, with a very dreamy
synth line.
The characteristic style that Broken Culture appeals is
one that I have heard several times before lately. The
mix of huge electronic influences and EBM likely pitched
vocals can be found in the music of bands like Digitalis
Purpurea and Herrschaft too. And in my opinion, these
bnds are doing a better job than our pal Dave. Broken
Culture seems to have a lack of power in most of the
tracks, and it seems like the most powerful blastbeats
are only hidden in intermezzos without any vocals. In my
opinion, this is a pity, because I clearly hear the good
potential here, but it’s still not unleashed. Also, when
I compare it to the preverious EP, I do hear some
improvements, but I am quite sure that this project can
do many times better. Am I just a bit ideophobic now?
Not really, because getting back to the basics, this
release ain’t that bad at all anyway.
Vote: 74 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Experiment
02. Skee?
03. Mr. Liar and his
Cult
04. Control
05. Head-Injury
06. Fatal
07. Disease M-E
08. Variety
09. Euthanasia
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