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TOTAKEKE: Forgotten on the Other Side of the Tracks CD Reviews [Tympanik Audio] |
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Contributed by Tony Young
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
 There’s a hell of a lot happening on the Totakeke front. Two albums in, one released earlier this year on his new home at the now fully established scene monster Tympanik Audio and we have this release out now to warm us up for the next album due early 2009.
FOTOSOTT is a collection of out-takes and unused material from the ‘Elekatota’ album, along with some remixes from Pandora’s Black Book, Lucidstatic and Brooklyn noise demon Terrorfakt. Immediately you could question the validity of such a release, but there is a lot of demand for Totakeke, and with Frank Mokros seeming to all but abandon his former project ‘Synth-Etik’, you can’t fault this album being a relevant stop-gap for those hungry for another fix.
As always Totakeke drives home his electronics in a pulsating cinematic show-reel. This is movement in its purest dramatic form, sliding and bleeping along a wave of heartbeat paced rhythms that suck the listener in and drags them along its many twisting night shod highways in a hypnotic sleep like trance.
Always engaging, never dull and lifeless, Mokros once again demonstrates why he is surely a force to be reckoned with in electronic circles, and this is the perfect way to exorcise all those devils that still remain from the original album this was originally spawned from.
8/10 Tony Young.
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