Full Tilt 3 2CD
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Apparently
'The Longest Running Club in the World', Full Tilt at
the Electric Ballroom, on the
evidence of this, appears to be the home of those kerrazy
Cybergoth people who seemingly
turn to dust if they stray any further from Camden Market than
Chalk Farm Road. This, the club's third compilation CD, released in
association with Kerrang!, slings
together some predictable dance metal (Pitchshifter, Killing Joke,
Ultraviolence), with some bizarre
diversions (Moby, Luke Slater, Depeche Mode) and is perhaps most
notable for the debut of Eminem's new side project with Royce 5-9:
Bad Meets Evil.
Bad Meets Evil shows hip-pop's
saviour reaching that plateau in
his career where some out-of-ideas fool at the A&R department
suggests going 'rock'. Bad Meets
Evil do however, affirm the
assumption that all this rap metal
stuff really isn't going to
improve any on Anthrax & P.E's
Bring
Tha
Noize.
And,
c'mon,
that
was
hardly
the
bollocks.
As
for
the
compilation,
it
hangs
together
well
enough,
although
it
would
have
been
nice
to
see
a
proper
DJ
set
mix,
rather
than
a
handful
of
floorfillers
and
a
few
ropey
remixes.
And
Christ
only
knows
how
the
Buzzcocks'
Boredom
ended
up
tacked
on
the
end.
Not
the
best
metal
compilation
to
emerge
recently,
but
it'll
make
a
welcome
enough
soundtrack
to
slapping
on
the
kohl
before
a
night
out
swapping
cider-tinged
spittle
with
partially-decayed
Goths
from
Stevenage.
At eighteen years old,
Full Tilt boldy claims to be the world's longest running club night, currently
sited at Camden's Electric Ballroom. Logically enough, this is the third
in a series of compilations of "recent and forthcoming floorfillers from the
club", which rather makes you wonder what kind of prophesising algorithm,
popularity divining stick or time machine is being used to predict the forthcoming
floorfillers. Minor logical pedantry
aside, this is quite a bracing disc, riddled with familiar names. Eminem
sneaks in in the company of Bad Meets Evil and Royce 5-9, performing "Nuttin' To Do", which is Slim Shady meets heavy metal, and consequently more
likely to be of interest to yer average tattooed and pierced Full Tilt denizen. There's a
cracking Torsten Stenzel vocal dub mix of Moby's "Porcelain", which, despite
being snugly wrapped inside just about every dancefloor cliché west of The Chemical
Brothers works marvellously. Ultraviolence's "Sex" is a bonkers, giddy rush that
you can't help being swept up in, and perched rather nervously and precariously at the end
of the night is the old Buzzcocks classic "Boredom", which I'm delighted to
welcome into my collection. Dub War's "One Chill" is an impressive, laid-back
but danceable piece, and old campaigner Jello Biafra makes an appearance to shout paranoid
technofear anti-propaganda over Pitchshifter's "As Seen On TV". Of
course, amidst all this largesse you have to endure half a dozen bands who strain
every sinew to
sound like Depeche Mode (one of whom, it appears, actually is Depeche
Mode), but
overall "Full Tilt Volume III" is a respectably eclectic and electric
package.And as if you're not chomping
at the bit already, it arrives with a bonus CD peopled with the music of
a dozen unsigned bands, selected in association
with Kerrang!. Although
of a growlier, less electro persuasion than the main feature there's still much
that is perfectly listenable here (I'd rather be stuck on a desert island with
this than "Farnborough Groove Volume 9"), and not necessarily all
that obscure
either -
even I've read about Throat Oyster before now.