After quite some years in the long grass, hardcore supertalent Wouter Vonk returns to the stage as Sidephex and releases nothing less than a full-length album. Dominated by the mighty 4/4 bass drum, โReinstatedโ starts as a dark techno voyage, encounters some EBM flavor and acid excursions along the way, before increasingly hardcore beats and industrial harshness creep in for a crushing finale. A high bid for the dance floors, but also a conceptually convincing album for the electronic lover.
After an unsettling โIntroโ, Sidephex gives us a triplet of contemporary minimal dark techno, with โThe Backyardโ, โManaโ and โSecludedโ all well-suited for the Berghain-style crowds. โClassicoโ is a great banger with a most appropriate title, sounding like the collaboration between Robert Armani and Johannes Heil that never happened in 1998 โ never forget where the roots are!
โBring it onโ does so, the beats banging harder, making you imagine the crowds go wild, and โNatriumโ follows with some sawtooth madness.
โGreat San Francisco Acid Waveโ is a collaboration track with Juno, and it sure gives you another 303 reasons to love this album. With โFroempelโ, Sidephex brings in the distortion and industrial sounds that also dominate โOrganism 0.030โ, โUltrasonicโ, โDestroyโ and โChaos Returnsโ, bringing this album to its noisy conclusion.
โReinstatedโ takes you from around 125 to over 150 bpm in the course of 70 minutes, and it wonโt loosen its grip on you from the first squeak. If it was Sidephexโ proclaimed goal to be reinstated (!) as a major player on the scene, itโs been well accomplished.
Label: Dark. Descent.
Cat#: DD14066
Artist: Sidephex
Format: Album, 13 x File, Digital / CD
Released: 26 March 2015
Written & Produced by Wouter Vonk
Mastering by Music Mastering NL
Design by Dark. Descent. Media
Marketed by NoisJ
01. Intro – 2:34
02. The Backyard – 6:04
03. Mana – 7:00
04. Secluded – 5:33
05. Classico – 5:01
06. Bring It On – 4:56
07. Natrium – 6:51
08. Great San Francisco Acid Wave (ft. Juno) – 6:14
09. Froempel – 5:06
10. Organism 0.030 – 5:32
11. Ultrasonic – 4:55
12. Destroy – 5:47
13. Chaos Returns – 4:59
THE BLACK BOX 