Reviews
2003-09-01
Well , you can say that Implicit Structures is an excellent album , but it depends. It depends on how many albums of rhythmic noise you’ve heard previous to this specific one. If you were, until recently, into Converter, Feindflug or Noisex , you might be impressed with Antigen Shift., but if you were sucking the tits of the Ant Zen catalog as much as I did , as well as embracing such labels as Hymen , Hands , Possessive Blindfold , DTA and Crunch Pod Media,while showing respect to this scene forefathers as Whitehouse , Esplendor Geometrico and even Black Lung, you won’t find nothing here to write home about.
This is 2003 and it’s time to admit: The rhythmic noise/power noise and electronics scene is stuck. While the scene veterans can still (hardly) keep their heads above the water and produce some new shifting sounds, most of the newcomers have nothing really fascinating to offer. There’s nothing wrong with Antigen Shift, vice versa, it’s a solid big shiny-filthy-broken tekno beatz album with layers of processed noise, some idm sensibility and good remixes, yet it’s quite like fishing: After the 50th time it might not be boring, just generic.
Rani Zager
