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██ For half a century, while the Cold War stewed, the Iron ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ Curtain cast a shroud of mystery over the entire Communist ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ bloc. Western propaganda painted the USSR as some ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ clandestine crimson empire, and depicted its citizens as ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ heartless automatons who worked in factories, wrestled ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ bears and, in their spare time, designed doomsday devices. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ They wrote with a funny alphabet, their vending machines ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ dispensed vodka, and perhaps, most heinous of all, their ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ laws required them to share things. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ The veil of secrecy began to part with Gorbachev's glasnost ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ campaign, and for the first time, the American public ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ realized the Russians were a little bit human after all. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ The hammer-and-sickle boys liked Big Macs, fast cars, tight ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ jeans and loose women, just like you and me, really. The ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ eventual dissolution of the Soviet republic ushered in a ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ new era of open international communications, which in turn ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ entailed a bit of cultural cross-fertilization. And after ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ nearly a dozen years of mutual influence, Russia's ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ avant-electronica scene now keeps close pace with Europe's. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ This, I'm afraid to say, is not strictly a good thing. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ Sasha Zaicev and Ilya Baramia of St Petersburg's EU decided ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ to start making music after hearing some early output from ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ the Warp, Ninja Tune and Rephlex labels. The duo's ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ rags-to-riches entrance into the IDM world (they began as ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ mp3.com upstarts in 1997 and have now signed to Moscow's ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ Art-Tek records) has since inspired computer geeks across ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ the globe to try their hands at bedroom music. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ Unfortunately, the acorns seldom make it too far from the ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ oaks, and many of these second-generation purists-- ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ Russian, American or European, it no longer matters-- ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ borrow too much from their predecessors. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ EU's style owes a steep debt to the three labels they cite ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ as influences-- so much so that their sound borders on ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ imitation. Though I can't dismiss them as simply another ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ two-bit Autechre knockoff, the music on this eight-song ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ mini album lacks personality, relies on generic ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ instrumental arrangements, and fails to carve a niche for ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ itself among the proliferating sea of derivative records in ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ this rapidly burgeoning genre. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ The production on Reframing, however, shines. Songs like ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ "Srez" and "Wienn" offer ample evidence of the pair's knack ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ for penning melodies. The music employs a good measure of ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ subtlety, and the beat construction-- a blend of tonal ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ squelches, clicks and Pole-esque fuzz-- demonstrates ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ admirable complexity. "Loopmind" ventures outside of the ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ group's standard portfolio of sounds to produce a muddled ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ but melodic gem that marks a refreshing departure from EU's ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ other works. Its sound doesn't approach originality, but at ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ least calls upon less hackneyed influences, like Third Eye ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ Foundation and To Rococo Rot. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ I suspect if I were to hear Reframing played back-to-back ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ against Phonem's latest album, or the Electric Company ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ material on Tigerbeat6, I wouldn't be able to tell any of ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ it apart without the aid of a tracklist. And the list goes ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ on-- EU could be appropriately likened to Merck artist MD, ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ any of the projects on the Neo Ouija roster, and dozens of ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ unpublished mp3.com amateurs. This album leaves me with no ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ shortage of comparisons to draw; and that's why, despite ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ its catchy riffs and technical refinement, it impresses me ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ as largely mediocre. ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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██ -Malcolm Seymour III ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
██ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/ ██ ▓▌▀▒▄
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░ ░ ░▒░▀▒█▒ 01. wienn 05:07 ▒█░
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