Album Review

Various Artists – Treasure Hunting

• 4th Jul 2012

‘Thou shall not make repetitive generic music.
Thou shall not make repetitive generic music.’

So decreed Scroobius Pip over the top of Dan Le Sac’s clunking home-made beat six years ago.

Which should have informed the whole of Astro Lab Recordings’ output, but sadly, it seemed that they wasn’t listening to this valuable advice.

A collected retrospective of remixes and edits that gathers together a core sample of your proudest moments really shouldn’t be this boring, but it all plods along without gathering pace in a manner that is almost completely devoid of charm.

At one point a robotic voice broke the tedium momentarily, but even that got tired real quick, other than that, there is little more of note to report on.

18 tracks, all rather dull, all rather repetitive, all almost entirely instrumental, and all five minutes plus, resulting in a compilation that lasts for over two hours, two long, drawn out hours.

It serves as passable background music in an inconsequential and inoffensive way, but this is hardly high praise for what should be serving as a sampler, a jumping on point that should show off the best that this label has to offer.

Perhaps others may like it, indeed, with six years behind them already, somebody must, but I am just not a fan of this repetitive generic music.