If you were to base this business purely on our CVs - and,hell, we do often enough - then you can't really knock Slovenian DJ UMEK'S progress.
Let's take a quick resume: founder of the local Slovenian club scene...check!...collaborator with the notorious Laibach...yup!...remixer of synth superstars Depeche Mode...OK, he gets my vote. Hmmm...step this way for your first single, Sir!
Right! Except that...well, this sucks frankly. Having snuck in the gatcrasher's entrance with his shiny credentials, UMEK proceeds to bore your pants off with four minimal, house-y outings that you wouldn't recognise again if they were placed in different covers and reshuffled.
Opening 'tune' "Tikonal" is arguably the best thing here, kicking in with a weird, bullfrog-gy vocal sample, before stiffing its' way along via a one-note keyboard refrain until (WICKED!) there's the sound of an aircraft taking off. Cool! Trouble is, it's all downhill from there on.
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None of the other tracks ("Kontol," "Revazon", "Zalonex") help to raise the pulse rate, coming across as 4/4 club exercises of the greyest hue. The best you can say is that the titles sound like Eastern European bomb-making components.
UMEK also boasts of having THREE decks on his CV. Sadly, as is often the case, it's what you do with 'em that counts, though, innit?
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