'PAID TO FAKE IT'
(3-track demo/ 2003)
The Conformist camp is rattling out tunes on a hugely cool limb, and these three sample tracks are the most re-vitalizing slabs of succulence since margarine on sliced bread. Details about the band are sketchy, while their music is introduced by 'Gangster's Code' and a most unsettling prelude to a great dance beat and a bassy as fuck back-line, so bassy and thumpingly ballsy in fact that my heart skipped a beat in tribute. Laced with variously sourced vocal samples spoke forth by men and women, sleazily quirky undertones are offered via lines like 'You tried to pork me!' 'What?' 'You know you did!' So, this tune as with the remaining two are aimless in that once the beat is set, all the tunes' constituents remain at constants, and I was literally begging for rawk hard guitar riffage to spice things up. BUT� then I had to mark my words and choke on my disdain when another huge beat's then plastered over Gangster's Code's funky basis. Which soon shut me up.
'Computer Generated' continues Conformist's non-conformist approach to their music making with the paranoid line 'Who are these people in my room?,' forcing me to wonder the same, the hugely distinctive sound of the future in Conformist doing their stuff in mine� with style - and playing out with the murky, twisted trance of 'Youcannotcountonanyoneexceptyourself.'
I'm speechless. Both this band and the music they boldly create are frankly brilliant.
(STEVE RUDD)
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