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'Warning: This Is Not Art!'

Track:	Name:	Time:
1.0.	Seek 200	3:06
2.0.	How Long	4:05
3.0.	Think	4:41
3.1.	Wenn Wellen Schwingen	0:25
4.0.	A Knife And A Fork	2:59
4.1.	R.I.P.	0:20
5.0.	Now That I Have You	5:03
6.0.	Fire Tonight	5:39
7.0.	Can't Slow Down	4:42
7.1.	T.V. Addicts	0:31
8.0.	Hard Currency	2:33
9.0.	Move Out	3:57
9.1.	CP Drill KKL	0:36
10.0.	Mirrorshades	5:28
10.1.	We Don't Take	0:08
11.0.	Hack 1	3:21
11.1.	Charlie X	0:09
12.0.	If Only	4:05
13.0.	Come With Me	4:22
14.0.	Slipping Away	3:57
14.1.	Here Is Kazmeyer	0:14
15.0.	Chemistry	2:13
	Total	62:38

Comments:

This is a bit more experimental than the previous album, and generally a bit funkier as well. More samples and weird sounds, and some in-between-songs sounds and samples (like 3.1, for instance, after the song 3.0). 'How Long' and 'Move Out' are pretty much the same style as before (only a bit more cheerful), 'Think' and 'Now That I Have You' are too but with more of a hip-hop beat ('Think' being the most obvious hit of the album). 'Seek 200' and 'Hard Currency' are a bit harder, instrumental tracks with lots of samples. 'Mirrorshades' and 'If Only' are slow, and a bit off the 'normal' sound of InSoc, but still very good IMHO. 'Hack 1' and 'A Knife And A Fork' are more of a sample mania, with everything from children's songs to James Brown and Kraftwerk. Not too unlike the Chemical Brothers six years later.

All in all, a rather diverse and interesting album, with several different styles of synthetic music. And they use their Roland D-110 a heck of a lot better than I use mine.

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