Kino Oko

Lost Entertainment

Horns & Hoofs

Lordy. Ex-Bigwig Grzegorz Magnuszewski, a name worth a bomb on a Scrabble board, has produced a blinder here. If you like Astrix and Infected Mushroom then, well, you might as well leave the room now. I’m not writing for you dicks anyway. This is deeply psychedelic electronic music, and there’s barely a track on here that would fit in with yer bog standard, Saturday-night-at-the-discotheque psytrance-on-toast… praise be.

Born Without Soul is a beautiful opener, sounding like Vangelis meets Boris Blenn at Peter Gabriel’s studio. Close your eyes and you can see a little videogame character, running about Space Harrier stylee over some amazing 3D backdrop or other. Metalic Mista is tuff electro – very psychedelic, it’s lo-fi analogue trance with Rick James funk at every corner. Pasyonata has a kaleidoscopsychedelic melodic swirl and goes smoothly from tecchy micro-breaks into 4-4 and back again. Hippie Bones is cracking eletro psybooty. There’s a very deep kick, a phatt analogue bassline, and it all sounds like a funkier, sparser acidhouse.

Colors of Black has a great feel to it – like Jean-Michel Jarre writing acidhouse on an Atari 2600, which picks up into this wicked oldskool number with Infinity Project midrange and Technossomy-tastic acid builds. Pan Prophet puts you in mind of Richie Hawtin – it’s all about the shifting, tetchy percussion. Interesting, but there’s a persistent very high-frequency at the topend that renders it more or less unlistenable. I couldn’t hack it anyway, and the dog was noticeably distressed.

Atomic Corner is very tasty… lo-paced bizarro trance, all your conventional Goa tags are there but they’re having the piss ripped out of them deftly. Well Done is an electroslut mushroom festival. Touches of Suomi-esque madness are creeping in here, the BPM slips like a Japanese schoolgirl covered in baby oil and it shifts from trance to jazz anad back again like the schitzophrenic bitch that it is. Finally, I can’t stop listening to Dead Birds In The Sky (dreamy, end-of-mixtape progressive featuring probably the only really decent vocals in trance) and Man Upon The Rainbow (insanely good Loopus-y funkgressive) – two cracking tunes to bring a quality album to a close.

Lost Entertainment is a delightful album. It’s not likely to melt in well with the majority if DJs’ sets out there, but as the envelope gets pushed wider all the time there’s a significant amount of substance here. Soak it up.

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