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Land Shark is a very conflicted work. It's both consistent and wildly uneven: consistent in that the tracks all exhibit the same genetic makeup - they are consistent in artistic signature - but some tracks are rather annoying while others have a certain minimalist charm. There's lots of house and electro floating around here, and by way of this surprisingly dark blend, there are some industrial tinges in spots too. Some tracks are vocal, others not, with the vocals being quite grating much of the time. At best, they're either ignorable or nothing to take seriously, not that the electronic dance world is a place of profound lyrics - often it doesn't matter a whole lot what they are so long as the vocalist has something to do - the vocals are just another instrument, in other words. Here their absence (most of the time) would have been welcome. However, there are instrumental tracks that make good use of the acidy thickness, the darkness and the bare groove, which is the core of this music, perhaps more so than normal with this beat-driven genre. The progressive introducton of layers is a technique employed here in some of the better moments. The electro audience would probably be most at home with this admittedly distinct CD, which is flawed, but not without its merit. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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