The Last

now, i thought i'd heard the end of the heavily-synthed 4-in-a-bar bassbeat that every hardcore DJ and his mother was using back in 2000; i take it back. this is one old-school hardcore electro album from saelynh, and much as i do usually despise the overused, it ain't half bad when you listen to it.

for a start, compared to Sensation Electronique, it seems like someone gave The Last an IV of industrial - you can hear bits of factory throughout the whole thing, giving it a decent collected feel. the tracks are well linked and they share more than a few qualities, making this not a particularly varied album but a fair DJ set and good music to just leave playing (if you're in that kind of mood.) to kinda counter that, occasionally you'll come across some random little treats like SaDyK's guest vocoder vocals or the impressively three-dimensional I Can Die Now that break up the linearity.

that for one, and Suicide (not as melancholy as its name would suggest, though the whole album is remarkably grim at times) are two tracks i'd play as crowd-pleasers any day, though the rest is best saved for when another jerk screwed you over and you need some fight music before you kill someone. i'd say those, along with 8-Bit Experience (sounds like someone put 1988 on crack, and that's a good thing) are the best tracks of The Last, but give The Night Train a miss (ouch).

a decent album from ya, saelynh - you're doing well, buddy.

Lepht