After a few experiments in the seventies not many artists have carried on the interesting practice of uniquely using their body or mouth to create music. Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk is one of these and his releases always appealed to me as having that particular edge of real, true and pure experimentation. In this release Jaap Blonk teams up with Dutch techno musician/engineer/visual artist Radbound Mens and the results are even better than usually. The synergy between the two is so great that you almost can't say that all the used audio sources are actually Blonk's voice. After extensive sampling, chopping, arranging, programming, assembling, treating and processing of these audio snippets you have five fluent tracks of techno music in flavors ranging from straight and minimal techno to drum'n'bass and gabber techno... if we only could get some goa too! ;-)"Bek" (dutch for 'mouth') is the fifth chapter in the Brombron series (read more about it in the Heimir Bjorgulfsson & Jonas Ohlsson review on these pages) and is probably also my favourite so far.Be on the lookout for Blonk's and Mens' old and new releases on Staalplaat (the latter also has a 12" coming out on Audio.NL records).