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Igloo Magazine's REVIEW

Pietro Da Sacco | 12/05/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Review by: Luca Maini at [...]

(12.05.05) This third full length by The Gasman fits perfectly between his gentle and slow-paced records on Planet Mu and his latest hardcore 12" on Terminal Dusk. Multiplex displays the usual sampling madness, with bits and pieces of any kind of music you can think of assembled with weird fantasy, forming a bizarre patchwork of drunken melodies. Multiplex features out of tune analogue synths, sometimes underscored with scrambled rhythms like in "Gasm" and "Trampoline," sometimes coupled with swingy beats as in "BFM;" then it turns to buzzing and clicking noises over clattering breaks as in "Scuth," and then again "Casserole" steers into an echoing desolate setting. There are other relaxing moments with mainly classical samples, take for example "BGB," "Thox2" and "Flush," but there's always something subtle underneath, you can't call Multiplex a calm record. Especially when "Tubed" accelerates with firing acid and "Buzzerd" unleashes tinny jungle breaks, until the closing 303 corker "Ultram" leaves you in a raving mood with some straight techno that recalls the sounds of Ceephax."