One for the anoraks and acid-heads!
The ‘Tandoori Tentacle EP by BADUN is the Danish 3-piece’s first release for Cactus Island. All serious space and time, the deep and random jazz (con)fusion-inspired techno is atmospheric to the core and thus it gurns and grinds, bleeps and splutters in fine style with no real sense of rhythm.
If first track ‘Cola Jeff’ is an overt bid to send your head into glorious freefall, the drum and bass feel that barely holds the textures of the title track together is a positive godsend in an ocean of madness. I hear a voice squeal ‘Gimme a beat!’ and then realise it’s me just as intermittent announcements echo from deep within the mix, adding to the eerie sense of futuristic renegade cyborg-infested surreality.
On first listen, the ‘Tandoori Tentacle’ sounds like a half-imaginary but completely warped dance peculiar to trainspotters and would-be DJ’s. Third tune ‘Swup’ continues the flow with ambient disregard for rational thought as the whole lot goes bollocks to sanity (albeit very slowly).
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Trip-hoppers and scratch enthusiasts might prick up their ears at final track ‘Silk Office’ as it whips up a lounging underwater frenzy that serves as the biggest indicator that this is a release of ‘Euro’ origin.
Without doubt this release is full of interesting sounds, but it’s definitely a boy’s record - strictly one for the enthusiasts.
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