This is the latest re-issue of Suicide legend Martin Rev's debut solo album, originally released in 1980 on Lust/Unlust records and produced by Charles Ball. This re-issue on Bureau B keeps the original running order, but strips it of the bonus tracks on the Daft records re-issue in 1997, that also re-titled the album Marvel after one of the bonus tunes. There is also a remastered version on R.O.I.R. that features an extra three bonus tunes, So if you already own this brilliant album in any previous version this re-issue doesn't offer you anything you don't already have, but of course if you don't own this album then now is a good time to buy a copy.
The album opens with Mari that has an insistent techno drum machine beat as the really nice keyboards decorate this love song, as the repeating motifs fill your ears with the love Martin feels for Mari.
Baby Oh Baby is the one song with lyrics, as Martin deadpan intones Oh Baby Oh Baby it's right tonight over the spry upbeat synths and swirls of synth noises, with the minimal drum machine keeping the steadiest of beats.
Nineteen 86 was of course futuristic when it was recorded, now its historic as the bells chime against what would become a classic drum and bass backbeat, that gives it enough of a head scratching dissonance to what is expected from a hardcore techno tune to stand out.
Temptation adds a glockenspiel as the central instrument, as all the whooshing sounds surround and impinge on the basic glockenspiel line, the drum machine powers it along for a good seven-minute freak out on the dancefloor.
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Jomo ups the intensity as the nastier sounds come over you, in waves of synths pouring scorn on normality, as an organ line keeps the beat more than the drum machine that's rattling away, drilling into your brain.
The album closes with Asia that thankfully sounds nothing like the band of that name, this has a repeating piano motif that has all sorts of weird repeating sounds coming off of it, this is deep dark nasty synth music with one foot in the avant garde and the other in techno dancefloor innovation, still ahead of its time.
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