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Clash of the titans….? American breakcore artist Bong-Ra has invited four well established and four up-comings from the flourishing breakcore-scene to remix four new tracks from the high energetic composer. The result is a very entertaining journey into the freakiest territories of contemporary breakbeat. The four tracks of Bong-Ra is also released on a 12″, but unless the purchase is intended for a playlist on a rave-club, you shouldn’t cheat yourself for the eight additional remixes on this cd-version since they definitely add something new to the original four tracks. Divided into three sections the opening section presents the original versions of Bong-Ra. In the following sections the tracks are completely deconstructed, broken and assembled into new pieces of aggression. In the second section we have the remixes of the established artists (Duran Duran Duran, Drop The Lime, Parasite, Enduser) and in the third section the contributions from the new rave-talents (Cardopusher, Dr. Bastardo, Ace Of Breaks, Cake Builder). As the four tracks have been converted into totally new forms and shapes we practically have twelve different tracks making the disc more appear as a compilation rather than a remixed project. Even the four original tracks have quite different approaches to breakbeat-style, though all of them belong to the club-oriented category of the electronic scene. The two opening tracks, “Coke Sniffah” and “The rush (long time coming)”, has a slightly more melodic approach to the raving expressions thanks to their heavy use of sampled vocals. Especially “The rush (long time coming)” with its sweet built-in tune sung by up-speed high-pitch female vocals. Things get darker and more abrasive with the penetration of third track “Suicide speed machine girl” and fourth track “Death to false metal”. Apart from the very well constructed breakbeats, “Suicide speed machine girl” is based on a pretty cool and a very aggressive guitar-riff of pure thrash metal fitting very well into the freaking hyper speed rhythm-texture. Where “Suicide speed machine girl” was a harsh piece of work, “Death to false metal” is the moment where hell breaks loose. A short but very effective track of wrath, opening with an evil dark side drone of subtle noise, the track soon after leads us into an orgy of furious breakbeats based on ultra-fast rhythm grindcore patterns (reminiscent of the patterns from legendary fast-drummer of Morbid Angel, Pete Sandoval). In the remix-sections, especially Ace Of breaks impresses with his utterly bizarre deconstruction of “Suicide speed machine girl” experimenting with the alluring contrast between silent and noisy expression. Also Enduser does an excellent job with his atmospheric ambient-inspired version of “Death of false metal”. Listeners of breakcore shouldn’t miss this magnificent piece of full throttle energy. (NMP)