When Germany needs movement, you need look no further than the ‘Noisuf-X’. This German project kept a presence for years now on the cyber industrial dance floors around the planet. Tracks such as ‘Tinnitus’, ‘Hit me hard’, ‘3000 Phon’ or ‘Deutschland braucht Bewegung’ are acknowledgments of Jan L’s project having a layer of sweat and rubber tarmacked into the electronic body arena. Now we look at the recent addition ‘Dead end District’ too see which alley we end up being electronically trapped in.

‘Stay Still’ I think of as your body slowly starting up; all the gears and pumps coming into motion, as they slowly build up speed, and you are now online. This takes you from 134- 150bpm as ‘Clubhit’ clicks in with those bleeping essences of ‘Noisuf-X’ appearing deeply and separating it out into the fine line of cyber industrial.

‘First Time Optimistic’ Is a break in the beat, it produces an imaginary delusion of not knowing where you are or what you are doing, triggering maybe what the titles says on the tin. ‘Shout Loud’ is the synthetic adrenaline dragging you with an almighty pull back into the dance floor and ‘Fulfil Its Promise’ making you bruise into the stricken light hours of the next morning.

‘What’ doesn’t need to tell you it is the real grinder, the injection into your heart that compares to having it attached to a supercharger I think does the announcement justice. Also complimented by the light mid-beat decelerations, allow you to coordinate your hands in a different manner. The song also fulfils the new pulse of what a new album in this area should do, with your ears still able to know its ‘Noisuf-X’ controlling you.

To the overview of ‘Dead End District’, the album has a hit or two in lurking inside, though leaving that aside there lacks a big enough variation enough for me to justify a few of the tracks. It’s like comparing two varieties of standard ‘Absolut’ vodka, great drink nonetheless, though all that has been changed is the design of the bottle no real new flavour. Taking an arguable contrast ‘Noisuf-X’ to me is the Tanz control unit when compared to ‘X-fusion’ (Jan. L’s main Project) though it’s struggling to completely move my arms and feet in as much intensity as the previous compositions by ‘Jan,’ I actually maybe getting more power up with previous ‘X-Fusion’ albums. Final words, Electronically good... Though I’m not electrocuted.


Tracklist
01.  Stay Still
02.  Clubhit
03.  Es Wird Brennen..
04.  Done In 15 Minutes
05.  Strange Signal
06.  First Time Optimistic
07.  Shout Loud
08.  Fulfill Its Promise
09.  Wir Fühlen Den Krach
10.  Future Ska [feat. Population]
11.  What
12.  HiFi
13.  MurderHouse


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