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Moderator - Sinner's Syndrome (Melting Records, 2018)

This album is dope. I can't even really figure out why I wishlisted it on Bandcamp. Maybe it was one of those that got recommended to me so much I finally said fuck it, I'll listen. Glad I did! Really knocked me for a loop. Moderator is a young Greek producer who apparently has a couple of albums already under his belt, but I don't know if they can stand up to Sinner's Syndrome. Here he cobbles together wholly new songs, most around the 3 minute mark, from old movie soundtracks, Spaghetti Westerns, spy movies, giallo, the like, augmented with some seriously thick, banging BEATZ...Dan the Automator is a good comparison, indeed some of these sound like they could be Gorillaz instrumentals, or maybe Danger Mouse...definitely a Tarantino vibe to the types of sounds selected here...and while I wouldn't say this sounds like any one thing Mike Patton has done, it sounds like something that would be right at home on his Ipecac label or opening for Fantomas or something. In fact remember that DJ, end.? He put out something on Ipecac that was good, this is less techno-y and more trip hop-y but maybe still in the ballpark. Total homerun. Esp check out the track "The Scene of the Crime" where Mr. Moderator weaves a whole new brilliant pop track out of I don't know what.

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