Released
1998
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
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Last Edit/Update
26 February 1999
Battery
Momentum
Track Listing
1. Betrayal
(edit)
2. This Much
(Hate Dept Remix)
3. Headcheck
4. Betrayal
(Exit Planet)!(Heavy Water Factory Remix)
5. Doppleganger
(Majestic) (Fishtank No. 9. Remix)
6. Theme
(Dub)
7. Theme
(Eulogy Edit) (Cameron Lewis/Ipecac Loop Remix)
Remix heaven is here with
some of our favourite bands out of the United States on Momentum. Not music
to necessarily relax to, Hate Dept., Cameron Lewis (Ipecac
Loop), Fishtank No. 9 and Heavy Water Factory
kick it hard with their own renditions of Battery songs that whisp the
listener into another dimension of high intensity sound energy. The first track Betrayal
pretty much sneaks up on you with a synthy-pop melodic piece and Maria singing her best to
the audience! You can never go wrong with Maria's voice! She just kicks it
hard. The tracks however do evolve into a bit more aggressive platform than other
releases by Battery. And the opening track is not any indication of what is yet to come by
any means.
This Much sounds like Maria is just chilling out, until
the guitar and drums enter the track and than WHAM! Hate Dept.
right in your face!...metal-edge guitar with Maria's voice, who would have thought?
Quite a wonderful track, highs and lows that edge on injections of that tasty
riffed and chugging rhythm guitar and drift beat drums. Great track! Funky
electro-grind best defines Headcheck, then we get a taste of Heavy Water
Factory on the remix of Betrayal, a more dark and steady composition again
with vocals by Maria... definitely earlier HWF style. Delving into the
more gothic-edge realm of electro, Doppleganger has a dreamy quality unlike the
rest of the tracks, warm and lucious vocals by Maria, simple, melodic and beautifully
exhilariating remix by Fishtank No. 9.
Theme is strikingly soft and peaceful, drum, bass and
programming sampled effects -- Maria again with her angelic voice, kindness in the melody
and non-threatening, a piece to contemplate. The final track, Theme remixed by a
favourite of mine, Cameron Lewis of Ipecac Loop of whom
never ceases to amaze me, brings out the experimental end of the release with noisey
samples, dronal and drifting vocals of Maria, sonic shifts in timbre and windy excursions
of synth. No beat, no tempo, just shifting. Very cool.
This release belongs in your Battery collection
of course. Visit Cop International for details on how to purchase Momentum.
