Album Review

Mit – Coda

• 10th Mar 2008

Never heard of Mit you say, well you will you will you will! There are so many magic moments on Coda, their key driven Kraut rock album that it’s hard to know where to start! Opening with what I imagine fly tinnitus to sound like, the opener escalates menacingly into a sweet Kraftwerk/Nine Inch Nails sound for a good 5 minutes before we hear a vocal that stirs memories of any shouty Whale vocal in its all too brief existence. Lets hope it keeps as kickass as this throughout shall we!

Now, if Air ever spewed up dub version of 1991s Devotion (Nomad & MC Mikee Freedom) and dropped in some Falco derived vocals that followed the tune to Kuff Dam(Happy Mondays), it surely wouldn’t be too far from this, yet another great tunerooney!

Continuing with the kinda quality you’d expect on any disappointing flipside dance remix of non epic proportion, Mit serve up what sounds like a Karl Bartos bedroom demo session, which you have to admit, doesn’t sound too bad, does it?!

From there on in, the LP continues to please as it goes. Between moments of Breakdance OSTs, Aloof dynamics, short bassless interims and lovely moog and drum duets, Coda follows the structure that was clearly beginning to form from the outset. And that’s not to say this LP is disappointing, far from it. The kickass sounds that are each polished and mixed exquisitely amount to more than enough to gleefully distract us from any shortcomings… shortcomings, surely not?

Oh yes, but don’t panic about the unrealised potential of tunes that crash and burn before their time or monotonous moments of unimaginative track outros that leave us somewhat bewildered and hoping for additional angles to be exploited here and there, ‘cause as I say, there’s just too much to celebrate on a debut that deserves proper exposure and lots and lots of volume… Just like any 2ManyDJs LP.

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