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Artist: TT
Title: Opfer : Einheit
Format: CD
Label: SkullLine (@)
Distributor: SkullLine
Rated: *****
This is the first official release of the specialized German mail order service SkullLine. Like so many mail order services did a comparable initiative in the past (to name the best known: Out Of Line / Crazy Horse Music), also the responsible people at SkullLine decided to enter the dangerous world of the music business by starting some efforts as a label. You have to know, that SkullLine is specialized to cover rarities mostly hailing out of the Industrial and Ritual Noise genre, but they hold also a few hard-to-get items out of Electro/EBM and the Darkwave/Goth genre in stock. Diversity musically placed between Dark Electro, EBM, Powernoise, Minimal up to Ambient – that’s also the given stuff of TT, which stands for Tronic and Triton83 and this duo presents here 14 tracks discovering all above mentioned styles more or less of quality. This release is strictly limited and available in two different versions. The first one is limited to 80 exemplars and comes in a DVD case, holds some graphically militaristic but nice done stuff on board and provides a pin. Pin but different artwork comes also in the special limited version (20 pieces only...) which is well hidden in a metal box set. What counts is the music and it takes some influences out of acts like FEINDFLUG, XOTOX, :WUMPSCUT:, NOISUF-X and related. Here and there are also included some shreds of vocals, mostly richly destroyed and placed in the mix. I adore the classic Electro tune "Automat" with some remembrances to the classic THE KLINIK, while "Gott wo bist Du?" gets my vote for being the most disruptive noisy piece here. Some obscure and experimental stuff is featured as well, just check out "Leichenliebe". Like the mail order service so is the presented music here, at times structured with known elements, at other times unconventional and chaotic. The given sound and recording quality does need an improvement for sure – but that’s the only thing I would like to criticize. Please note that this release is only available – as far as it is strictly limited – directly from SkullLine, so please join them through the given contact references here. A next production featuring Triton83 is already in the works...


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