Alam Al-Mithal - (8:04) 119 BPM
Review: Charge is Ben Versluis' aka Worker/Parasite's second release for Barcelona label Classicworks - and it begins in somewhat incongruous fashion. "Alam Al-Mitha" is an acid-soaked, stepping affair and it's followed by "LDB-1 Tool". There, the 303s have been replaced with filtered riffs and steely drums. By the time he gets to "Bene Gesserit" the mood has darkened considerably, and that track resonates to stomping, distorted kicks and a more malevolent whiff of acid than before. However, not even "Gesserit" can compare to the high-octane, Woody McBride-style hard techno of "Crysknife" and the aptly-named "Distortx0x", with the latter raining down analogue chaos at 140bpm.