Genaside II borrow and appropriate from the Chemical Brothers and other icons in their
bass-heavy, drum-heavy jungle of a genre, but Ad Finite is proof that
it's easy to love a good thief. It's especially easy when Genaside II
create something so wondrous and weird from all that they've scraped together.
"The Genaside Will Not be Televised" is a hilarious reworking of Gil-Scott
Heron ("The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because
the revolution will not be televised, brother!"), as set to a powerfully
cinematic backbeat with pounding drums. "Casualties of War" is as much Mike
Oldfield as it is jungle or drum-and-bass, and all the rest falls along the
same lines. A song will slow down, then get so beat-heavy that it could cause all the cream in
your fridge to whip itself.
Though "Death of the Kamikaze", "50000 What If's", and "Scorpion's
Nihilistic Colours" are songs that you might not enjoy when you're not on the dance floor,
Genaside II far more readily create music that's so visual and arresting that the
air you breathe becomes like a stream of haikus as you listen.
Were Malcolm McLaren ever to re-emerge to plunder old-school
techno, he would find no better work to imitate than the scarcely-buried
treasures recycled into gold here.