Techno Animal – The Brotherhood Of The Bomb

Super happy this got a proper release on vinyl. Massive, massive album. The cover change is a very strange decision. The original artwork is iconic.

Anyone knows if the repress is being sold only through their Bandcamp?

Yesss this album is raw fire! Such a good collaboration. So glad to see Relapse giving it the full deluxe 2 x LP reissue treatment. Pre-ordered. I regrettably slept on Re-Entry but this one I haven't. Absolute juggernaut of an album.

These guys…. This is a really heavy, heavily slept on release. Why some of the “big stars” never perked up. And listened? Well fuck em!!! These are getting released soon.

the pinnacle of Industrial hip hop, (coincidentally with its title released 9/11!) and is only complemented by 2nd Gen's "and/or" and EL-P's "fantastic damage" at time. On production, the dynamic duo Broderick and Martin tear thru 12 tracks of brutally distorted hip hop beats with some great names of alternative hip hop throughout, even tossing some dub influences previously exhibited in their other outputs. This is what half of the later 90s DHR crowd could've been if the label hadn't gone into stagnation and we had to wait for Death Grips and Clipping to take the mantle of co-holders of the industrial hip hop crown.

My only complaint about much of its collectibility and price this album is on vinyl, the LP version is missing some tracks which only feature on the CD version, which is a shame as i was hoping to play "Subspecies" on a nice sound system. But either way, if you follow the peerless live noise hop of Dalek or enjoy either the duo's previous outputs (which are, always impressive) cop this album now.

EDIT: there is now a great repress of this album, with all the instrumental tracks included. its a great pressing and worth every penny. seek this edition out as it is available everywhere as of now.

Sonically and aesthetically, this is the best industrial hiphop album ever made -- all warm distortion, piercing tin, menace like rising steam and bass so deep and dead it'll go down like you just swallowed the wrong pill.

No disrespect, but the other guy's comment about "pretentiousness" was totally misleading (despite his decent word-pictures of the sound): these MCs know exactly what they're saying. The definition of pretension is affecting knowledge one doesn't actually possess, and the raps/rants heard here spew measured prosody and restless eclecticism from a place that is as sincere and self-assured as it is eccentric. Add to that an overlay of anger and you've got a night-of-the-living-don't-fuck-with-me soundtrack: Perfect for speeding through wrecked cities, picking fights in your head and picturing the end.

I generally don't have a taste for thesaurus-laden "intelligent" (read: pretentious) MCs like El-P and the guys form Anti-Pop Consortium. Even Dälek, despite his astonishing musical presence, sometimes gets on my nerves. But Techno Animal keeps all gears roaring on this album, keeping the virus synth torches burning through foggy urban battlefield atmospheres, and some of the harshest metallic breakbeats I've ever heard. In the end it doesn't really matter what silly graduate theses the mcs are cramming into the songs, as their sheer delivery contributes to the songs abstract rhythmic melodies that up their aggression to maximum. It's too bad this was TA's last full-length, it looked like they were heading towards some amazing territory.