If you have a mission to fulfill, you might be well-advised to activate a network of supporters. In the case of Zengineers the mission is to revive a musical language written off by many with some new content.
A network, consisting of the netlabels iD.EOLOGY and musicartistry, is already there to back them up. And so their dichotomic approach to the question whether these days there still is anything left to say on the topic of drum’n'bass bestows upon us a netaudio-premiere in the shape of a double-album release divided upon two netlabels. “Hikari” and “Yamiyo” act complementary to one another in style and content and yet the two halves unite 24 tracks, on which Zengineers easily recombine genre characteristics of past and present days with stylistic tidbits from synthpop-vocals to world-music-vibes and jazz-elements.
“Yamiyo”, published on musicartistry, has both its feet on the solid ground of the present. Harsh resonance-filters meet driving boldbeats, the massive sound of ferro-concrete contrasts the clanging of shattering glass while Photek and Eat Static are dancing the funky chicken in front of our inner ear. Indications of jazzy basses coolly groove into the action and put us into smokey subterranean bars, just to hunt us down white-tiled subway stations in a feverish electro-staccato the very next moment.
When the ride is about to come to an end you notice how many different ways drum’n'bass still has these days to make you feel your own physicality, while at the same time you wonder whether the same thing is true for the inner cinema-qualities of the genre. More on that on “Hikari” (available on www.ideology.de).
| Audio Files | 192Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 | VBR MP3 |
| Wait There’s More | 4.5M | 2.4M | 1.5M | 4.4M |
| Drop Dadd Shit | 7.5M | 4.0M | 2.5M | 6.5M |
| Outside The Mind Machine | 7.3M | 3.8M | 2.4M | 6.9M |
| No Rest For The Wicked | 8.3M | 4.2M | 2.8M | 7.3M |
| Through The Eyes Of Man (Zengineers Rmx) | 7.1M | 3.9M | 2.4M | 5.8M |
| The Wild | 4.7M | 3.1M | 9.3M | |
| The Crest | 7.7M | 4.1M | 2.6M | 6.9M |
| 8 Point 6K | 5.9M | 3.0M | 2.0M | 5.2M |
| The Return Of | 7.7M | 4.0M | 2.6M | 6.2M |
| Yamiyo | 9.3M | 4.7M | 3.1M | 8.2M |
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