Neil Landstrumm - Restaurant Of Assassins (2007) (FLAC)

Warehouse techno promoter and producer Neil Landstrumm is a rave veteran. Now, fired up by grime and dubstep’s ‘chest bass’, he’s returned to the bleep’n’bass rave sounds that started it all. His soundsystem smashing production, together with a shot of 2007’s dubstep and grime wobble, mean that despite the vintage sound of the dusty breakbeats, rave signal bleeps and raga snippets, the tracks work with sheer headstrong dancefloor immediacy. With a whole new generation of clubbers getting off on old rave sounds, this shows how it should be done. Watch yer bassbins – no, seriously - Reviewed by Mixmag

TRACKLIST

1 Neil Landstrumm – Kids Wake Up 4:40 

2 Neil Landstrumm With Big Bully – Yorkshire Steel Cybernetics 4:48 

3 Neil Landstrumm – Assassin Master 5:52 

4 Neil Landstrumm With The Ragga Twins – Reverse Rebel 5:20 

5 Neil Landstrumm – Harlem Shoot Me 5:01 

6 Neil Landstrumm – Give Them Fire 4:31 

7 Neil Landstrumm – Rockers 'The Underground King' 6:26 

8 Neil Landstrumm With Si Begg – Lung Dub 3:37 

9 Neil Landstrumm – Tusk Hunter 4:19 

10 Neil Landstrumm – Big In Chapeltown 4:28 

11 Neil Landstrumm – Mike Grimes 6:18

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Neil Landstrumm - She took a bullet meant for me (2001)

Gone from the production ranks for a few years (he spent time working for MTV and on a video-game project), Neil Landstrumm returned with another LP of driving experimental techno and sub-basement level breakbeats. Based in Brooklyn, Landstrumm gathers influences from the illbient community for hip-hop trash of "Mute Hop Robo Cop" and "Wax Melts Me," and turns the title track from electro to synth pop and back courtesy of a Police sample ("Invisible Sun"). Purists need not worry: There's plenty of the patented Landstrumm crunch, he simply added a few experiments to the experimental techno. (AllMusic/Review)

TRACKLIST

Bullet Proof 5:38 

Indulge Me 5:29 

Mute Hop Robo Cop (Featuring Chuck) 3:26 

She Took A Bullet Meant For Me 5:19 

Prog 2 Bitchy Bitchy Itchy Itchy 5:39 

Glamourama 5:40 

Something Different 3:56 

Sufficiently Evil 2:14 

One For The Rude Boy 5:19 

USA Wants More Oil, Thanks. 6:18 

Wax Melts Me 4:10

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Neil Landstrumm - Bedrooms and Cities (1997)

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1 Tension In New York 4:07

2 Stretch Copenhagen 4:21

3 Monaco Grand Prix - The Wash Out 4:41

4 Leaving Edinburgh Humour 5:56

5 Minneapolis Bass Treatment 5:50

6 Miami Vice 4:44

7 Gotham City (Football Club) 4:43

8 Brazilian Death Metal 5:48

9 George Shoulders Is Alive 6:02

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Neil Landstrumm - Brown By August (1995)

1 Shuttlecock 6:14 

2 DX Serve 3:57 

3 Index Revisited 4:43 

4 Sibling Rivalry (Brother Landstrumm-Sister Tarrida Mix) 4:23 

5 Shake The Hog

Vocals – Skipjack Class 4:44 

6 Custard Traxx 5:14 

7 Finnish Deception 4:49 

8 Home Delivery 5:15 

9 Squeeze 4:48 

10 Peer Inpressions 5:33 

11 She-ra Extra Speaker Pop 4:51

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Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Neil Landstrumm has played upon the verge of experimental techno music, a form no less innovative though its steady beat has been perceived as having little room for intelligent musicians. Influenced by the Sheffield school of industrial bleep techno pioneered by LFO, Landstrumm is also respectful of colleague Cristian Vogel, who more than shares his tendencies toward the obtuse. Landstrumm began producing in the early '90s within a variety of groups, but began solo production in 1993. He met Vogel one year later while DJing at Edinburgh's Sativa club, and released a single for Vogel's Mosquito label; the duo also combined for several EPs recorded as Blue Arsed Fly. Landstrumm began recording for Peacefrog Records through Vogel's connection to Luke Slater, and released his first album Brown for August on Peacefrog in 1995. Increasingly splitting production chores with occasional partner Tobias Schmidt -- who records on his own as well -- he released his second LP, Understanding Disinformation, in 1996 for Berlin's sympathetic Tresor label. Landstrumm's formation of the Scandinavia label that year took up much of his time, with the release of solid singles by Adam X, Stephen Brown and others; nevertheless, in 1997 he managed to issue another full-length, Bedrooms and Cities. Though Pro Audio followed just one year later, Landstrumm took some time off to work on his own label (Scandinavia) and on a series of projects with MTV and video-game developers. Finally, 2001 brought another Tresor LP, She Took a Bullet Meant for Me.

Neil Landstrumm - Understanding Disinformation (1996)

Neil Landstrumm's debut album for Tresor "Understanding Disinformation" is a raw slab of pulpy science fiction, an otherworldly tale of experimental and on-edge techno and a bizarre placement of William Burroughs within the realm of Star Wars. "Understanding Disinformation" is fearless music filled with danger, showing deep and deeper all sides of the Landstrumm fare. 

Landstrumm's uptempo side comes across in the tracks "Twisted in New York" and "Range Rover Traxx", two dizzying rides of torsion and frequency. His legendary capacity for aggressive dance induction is obvious in the percussive assault of "The Glasvegas Experience" and the even heavier flying saucer attack of "S. Board/ZX-81". 

In the album's ambient and almost beat-less tracks, "Invasion of the Bovine Snatchers" and "Nasty and Suspicious Nature", Landstrumm has sought out the cooler, crisper and stranger niches of his mind with creeping frequencies and crawling melodies.

Twisted In New York 7:05 

Praline Horse 5:06 

Range Rover Traxx 6:23 

Invasion Of The Bovine Snatchers 5:56 

The Glasvegas Experience 6:05 

Pirate 4:50 

S:Board Crash//ZX-81 6:50 

Nasty And Suspicious Nature 6:54 

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