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This song defines simple categorizations. The sounds are too heavy for techno, yet the drumbeat is too clean for an industrial song. The loops belong in a breakbeat track, yet the angular synth lines seem lifted from a fusion group and the sputtering bassline sounds like the output of a sequencer in the moments before a spontaneous reboot. Like “Barbaric” and “Delta Two-Five,” this song is a strange blend of disparate elements, yet this one succeeds where the others did not. The opening riff, played using a sampled ARP 2600 sound, kicks off the track in a flurry of syncopation and sixteenth-note-triplets before a creepy, heavily aliased child’s laugh from the Amiga’s 8-bit sound chip introduces the deep R8 rhythm track and bendy Oberheim OB-8 bassline. The now-incredibly-oversampled-but-still-fresh-in-1992 Cyrus from “The Warriors” inquires “Can you dig it?” You’d better be ready to, my friend, because an ESQ-1 is about to drop mad crazy science on your dome with a lead line from planet Ufreekinus. The syncopated ESQ-1 filter sweep crosses over from “Delta Two-Five” for a surprise visit, and the track soon takes an ominous turn; the OB-8 drones spooky low intervals as a character from “Jacob’s Ladder” informs us that we’re already dead. Soon, the guitarist from Warrant is receiving a fatal shock after touching his poorly-grounded guitar strings, and his twitching, smoking body delivers a final burst of barre chords as an ecstasy-mad raver hoots uncontrollably in the distance. As the mayhem draws to a close, the MKS20 delivers a spooky elegy and the beat slowly fades out.
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