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[        Mentallo And The Fixer--Systematik Ruin (EP)       ]

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Style    [ Industrial        ]        [ 160kbps / 44,1kHz ] Quality
Date     [ 08-18-1999        ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ 09 (66:08 min)    ]   Songs

Mentallo & The Fixer spurred a movement in the early 90s responsible
for the neo-structured fusion of techno's hi-fi analog synths and
industrial's classic beat-the-hell-out-of-everything pastiche.
Somewhere down a twisting Texas road, brothers Dwayne and Gary
Dassing got lost: a fall-out later and the once-famed outfit suddenly
became a one-man undertaking of loose-finger drum ripples and analog
rumbles that feel tighter than a straight jacket.
Under the noise damage on Systematik Ruin is Front 242's 1988
classic, Front by Front, a timeless creation untimley recreated in a
feeble effort to redefine Mentallo & The Fixer. Skirting across the
brooding soundscapes of live drum tracks and quirky synth rhythms,
Mentallo & The Fixer is forgotten to the infectious 242-esque samples
that only escape complete knock-off stamping from the absence of
Jean-Luc DeMeyer squaking in the mic and live drumming that surpasses
all previous Mentallo exploits.
John Bustamate, however, fills that role in "Michael."  And as the
vocalist of other Texan-duo Fektion Fekler - who share striking
similarities to Mentallo & The Fixer for close-knit reasons - the EP
ends up as a tribute to Front 242 with an intermission almost
appropriate for Fektion Fekler's From Here to Heaven.  But clocking
in at over thirteen minutes, the track drags on-and-on like a Jerry
Lewis telethon with "Michael...where are you now?" repeated enough
times to make you wonder why Michael isn't answering.  More than
likely, he's trying to get Systematik Ruin back in the Delorean.

Gary Dassing needs to head back to the future or be made aware EBM's
heydey has
long since passed; only Jonni Pyre's contribution to "Inner Peace" is
this sixty-minute
regression's one closely redeeming quality aside from the previously
mentioned percussion.
At least when Bill Leeb lost Ryhs Fulber to a solo career Front Line
Assembly stayed in 1997.
Dwayne...where are you now?

01 Systematik Ruin - Remix                                (05:47)
02 Carbon Based                                           (08:23)
03 Intro-Systematik Ruin - Last Days Remix                (12:42)
04 Inner Peace - Remix                                    (04:31)
05 Carbon Based - Ambient                                 (07:25)
06 Systematik Ruin - Trance Tone Dub                      (05:35)
07 Michael                                                (13:14)
08 Carbon Based - Trance Tone Dub                         (03:44)
09 Inner Peace                                            (04:47)

Next month UBE will celebrate its first birthday, and so it's time
to take a look back at a year of both trouble and success.
When we founded UBE in September 98 on IRCNet, we never thought, that
this "little idea" will grow that big and we never imagined, that UBE
will have that success we had the whole year.
That's why I wanna thank all people who helped us to become that big,
all members, who released quality stuff under our label, all couriers
who moved our releases through the world, all the siteops who have UBE
as affiliated group on their site and last but not least all our fans
out there who like our releases.
Also we'd like to greet all other MP3 groups rockin' the scene. A year
ago, there were only 5 or 6 groups I knew, but the last year many new
groups were founded, some of them really became big, some disappeared
as fast as they came. We hope for everybody, that he has as much fun
as we have when we release some stuff. Scene is fun, don't take it too
serious.

As any other group, we are still looking for good talented rippers and
suppliers, who can supply us with new releases or any other things that
could be interesting for us (e.g. hardware, shells, webspace, domain).
If you have something you can contribute to the group, feel free to
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