Now Scatman PX, he got heart, and you get to hear it on the next two tracks. "Y' blew my World Away" features Scatman PX booze'n'fags vocal over stripped down keyboards and strings, kinda like Rod Stuart or Joe Cocker (when they were good) meets the Manics at a late night lock-in. Beautiful.
"Know" features that soulful vocal in a bare bones arrangement over chunky acoustic guitar with an ending to pull you up sudden.

Worth buying for the beats and rhetoric of "Bring Down Parliament" alone, but "Y'blew my World Away" will stay stuck in your head like a song you have always known.
Oh, yeah: top marks also for the cover, with Christine Keeler, Mata Hari, Marilyn Munroe and Monica "Cigar-chompin" Lewinsky on there.

Review by: The Rev. Doctor One-Black-Hat
Release date:  April '99? Seeking distributors
on:  Self release out of Kactus Studios
artist :  En-Eye
title:  Aleph

Background: En-Eye is one of the movers behind FREESTYLE and "Aleph" brings together three En-Eye tracks and an En- Eye remix of the startling Sonic Catering Band [where beats meet batter and loops meet lasagne!]in one release. Plans for an En-Eye album later this year.

"Aleph" is built like a virtual venue taking you in the "Entrance" with a minute of Eastern mystic chant and jumping into the first room of "Emergency Break" where big shuffling back beats are spread about the place. The chillout room follows with "That's Alright Mama" an old Elvis track on acoustic guitar (well shit, it is in a freestyle). "Aleph (live at Omsk)" takes you into darker ambient sounds over a click'n'lickin' loop, before En-Eye's Bombay Mix of the Sonic Catering Band "Audio Noodles" wigs out totally with fried egg crackles, chinks from crockery that sound exactly like anime martial arts and ….something that goes VOOOM in a phat deep way like the heartbeat of some huge sleeping animal. And it goes VOOOM a lot.
From this you enter the final room, an excerpt from En-Eye's "Bark" which features Middle Eastern tinged loops spinning and zipping around and around. Finally you stagger out the "Exit" to a minor fugue on the piano. A fearless bit of freestylin'. Large.

Review by: J
Release date:  March '99
on:  Proper gander Recordings
artist :  burt
title:  -2A+ / sleepwalker

This debut release from burt delivers three fine cuts from a band who deliver a slap around the face to complacency and vigorously remove the "schmindie" from "indie" to provide us with a reminder of just how good bands with guitars can be.

"-2A+" storms in with a big-booted Green Day riff, then drops back to an old skool indie rap before skidding into BIG vocal melodies and mad deck scratches and then stomping out in a Beastie's style chant. It sounds insane when you write it down but "-2A+" rocks. Trust me.
"Sleepwalker" provides huge pop hooks in a skyscraping chorus reminiscent of Tom Petty's "Freefallin'" pumped up on distortion.
"Little Virgin" chills out with another hooky chorus preceeeding a middle8 that jumps up and grabs you by the throat. According to the press release the way the track builds up is like a (very poetic) first shag… Hmmmmm. It doesn't fit in too well with my pissed up first time and there's sure as fuck no reference to the girl hiding your trousers so you couldn't bugger off in the middle of the night (not that I would've, like). What the hell, fuck the theory - it's a fine pop song. It's a little bit tasty.

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