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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Thisturbia is a next release featuring Fernando Cerqueira Thisco aka Rasalasad working with another formation. Amantra (Audiomantra) is a French project driven by Thierry Arnal. He released some work on Avalanche Records and Terranean Recordings.

Content: The work takes off with heavy, ambient blasts joined by dark noises. Quite progressively both artists are experimenting with different influences moving from cinematographic and somewhat psychedelic-like passages towards heavy, resonating drones.

Thisturbia is an overwhelming production covering different sources of inspiration. I was mainly impressed by the global sound production, which comes mainly through in the crushing ambient parts and heavy drones. Peak is an absolute masterpiece.

- - - : Rasalasad is not exactly a formation that can be labeled as one established style. Thats maybe a problem when you have to define the work of this project.

Typical Recoil elements phrase repeated over and over again.

Yeah, and the only thing you know about Recoil is how the album covers look like, don't you?

Plus right after the typical heavy Recoil like production we have This is exactly how Depeche Mode could sound today. Make up your mind dude. If it's "Recoilish" than it can't sound like Mode (or even "new Mode"). It's completely different stuff. And again we come back to the first question: did this guy hear anything by Recoil, except the name?

Seriously, Alan for the last 16 years have created great albums and you people act as if he did nothing for all this time and come back to the business NOW. In comparison to his solo stuff, this remix is mediocre and you are like "go Alan, you showed them".