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Doomsdaykult
“The Complete D.D.K.- A to Z”
(18-track CD-R, mixed at Doomsday Studios, 55:07)
Chuck the old cassettes, here’s the digital remasters- boosted and booming for that spine-shiverin’ surge of somber synth-pop. Culled from their “Dark Days Ahead” and “Produkt of My Environment” back catalog, DDK are one of the few local digi-tech acts to actively pursue darkwave and coldwave formations. While most of their earlier tracks have that unstoppable, hyper-BPM motivation, they still slip in the offbeat vocal sample or unnerving squiggle. If only to serve notice to DJs that DDK are quite capable of deconstructing and recombining their own works, the tracks from “Produkt” are much more developed, realized, and then extended. Even taking a poke at themselves for the mindless raving of “Pinhead Mix,” DDK are much broader conceptualists, using the dirge-y sound collages of “This Kind of Evil” and “P.2. Brite” as stronger evolvement for future works. Those listeners seeking a band that can lapse from Alphaville to Rammstein to Eno (with a few tracks outside those boundaries) need to check this comp out. (contact: http://members.koom.com/doomsdaykult)
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