Szene Hamburg - June 2000

Checksum Organic Dub - to 4. in the Pudels

If rock musicians dare themselves to electronic music, pretty often caution is required. Import they nevertheless frequently only vordergruendige Gimmicks, in order to give oneself (allegedly) state OF the kind. Is also gets themselves last a few announced TechnoProduzenten completely particularly likes Remix-Fieber-man, and already the image transfer is to succeed to the Ravegeneration. Ridiculously, but often successfully tragic-proves. Fortunately there are again and again and ever more frequently also different motives, for instance the desire at (still strangers) the experiment. So also with Checksum, consisting of two no longer completely unknown Protagonisten of San Franciso's Underground scene.

Greg Freeman plays (e) with Pell Mell, a kind outrider model for post-Rocker such as Tortoise, and produced from smog over Royal Trux to Barbara Manning so rather each guitar volume of the city. One of it were Granfaloon bus, this verschrobenen Folkrocker, with which a gewsser Jeff Palmer sits at the Schlagzeug. Also this made itself as a producer a name, and who spends much time in the Studio, begins to experiment easily times. The two discovered a common preference for Dub effects and electronic Spielereien and took up similar basic TRACKs, which took them again apart then in all soul peace piece by piece with all kinds of effect devices, filters and speeds since always 1996 again in their spare time, until they had achieved their own warm and organic flow, which came their vision of experimental instrument valley music close. With "From The Beginning OF The World" (oni.tor/Hausmusik) is present now the debut, and like the sound TRACK sounds to a nocturnal walk by a San Francisco wrapped in nebulas. Somehow terribly, somehow fascinatingly.

Markus Naegele