CEEPHAX ACID CREW Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Ceephax Acid Crew's Exidy Tours album was first put out on Firstcask Records in 2003. More than 20 years on, it has only grown in stature among lovers of eccentric electro. Says the artists, who has plenty in common with peers like Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and DMX Crew, the album was "a selection of my styles and ideas at the time, ranging from drum n bass, ambient to acid." The tracks are mostly short but all make a massive impact in that brief time, with acid driving from most synths as the thrilling drum programming sweeps you off your feet.

Review: First released in 2006, 'Ceerial Port' is the ultimate wildcard in the electro profligate Ceephax's towering discography. The seven-or-eight track album does things with the electro form that few of Mr. Jenkinson's contemporaries would dare ever indulge, were it not for this initial fatherly stamp of approval. lead reissue cut 'Acid Whorl' is the foremost case in point, hard-limiting and soft-clipping a cyclonic 'whorlwind' of pitch-whacked acid effluence. Further 8-bit playtimes come in the form of 'Acid Highway' and 'Acid Causeway', recalling the feeling of scouring the outer edges of an Atari Kart game and encountering nothing but rolling, pixelated skies; 'Tough Grugoy Acid' and 'Woodlice Acid' make up the longer wavelengths on the spectrum, stomping and echo-rimshotting to ever-weighty, yet jolly ends.