Bagging up some unreleased tunes, this compilation offers up EBM with a stiffly industrial edge to its rhythms and synth voices. Steady beat-loops with hi-hat samples and ‘oontz oontz oontz’ drum machine compression (plus a few requisite drops of the Amen Break) mark every song, most of which come off as practice runs for more fully-realized tracks. The big exception is “The Invasion”, the ~7-minute closer, which unloads one percussion attack after another, rolling smoothly from one 4/4 to the next, packing in additional beat layers over each other, and escalating a background howl while doing so. That last track is enough to make the EP worth picking up on its own, though the rest remains kind of dicey.
Scrambled Brains 