Although picked-up with a license deal directly from the Oklahoma-based label Re:Mission Entertainment, this one is a TAPE release provided to us by the young German tape label Single Speed Tapes. This label founded by Sören Otto has – you'll get it – specialized itself to bring out some hard-to-find or re-releases of one or another treasure from (among others) Amnistia, Wermut or Terminal State.

As we know out of the early days of EBM, Electronica, Synthpop, Wave, Dark Electro and/or Industrial – however you like to call it – tapes have been the to-go-medium for young and unrecognized band projects to present their first recordings to their small audience and to grab some attention of the underground record labels. It has been the days when no one was able to afford a vinyl production, or CD writers have been a far too expensive investment. With the beginning of the PC technology and so the rise of CDR writers, tapes have lost their meaning in almost all style of electronic-drive music, maybe with the exception of a very few Powernoise- / Rhythmic Noise productions which have been always used this medium as a possible, special packaging item. Then “life” came back into tapes with the often proclaimed retro orientation to the 80s not only in music production but also in art and technology. It's still a satisfying impression to hold a piece of hardware in your hands instead to search for digital mp3 files in various areas of your PC-driven home entertainment or mobile phones.

Same here and limited to only 60 hand-numbered exemplars, but with Kitty Kosmonaut we have prominent band members with Dwayne Dassing of Mentallo & the Fixer and John Bustamante of Fektion Fekler. Re:Mission Entertainment has released this album already in 2015 with a limited run of CD's as well as digitally via their Bandcamp web resource, but nevertheless this release went completely under the radar of the audience. Regarding the stardom of the protagonists behind, this surprises negatively.

Both Dwayne and John are providing the music with synth programming, sequencing, etc., while it is John who supplies also his vocals on the tracks. For both elaborated musicians this new project seems to be an ideal playing field for experiments and to test out diverse forms of synthesis. You shouldn't expect an international rising top-notch album production in vein of the heydays of both musician under their Mentallo / Fekler - pseudonyms. Instead you'll get a dark-minded form of experimental Electronica which avoids it to be sorted into genre-boundaries.

Tracks like “Sum it Up” can entertain with it's clear Dark Electro structures, while such tunes like “Zero Age” with its noisy bells-like archaic sound outbursts are drifting away from any conventional path. Also don't expect a release driven by adrenaline, sweat and muscles formulated with dancefloor-compatibility, mostly the featured tracks here remain slow to mid-tempo and concentrate rather to focus on the Electronica elements. It's a bit like Mainesthai in psychosis, not that release to find immediately entrance to.

This 12 tracks do need some spins in your old Walkman or tape-deck, but its worth it to discover the talent behind the both musicians. Globally a fine addition to the growing discography of this young and promising tape-label. This one shouldn't be sold out yet, also via Bandcamp under the Re:Mission Entertainment resource it should be still possible to purchase this collectors item. Make sure to contact Single Speed Tapes through their Bigcartel store above in the links.