CYLAB "Disseminate"
Whispercore Music
Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008
Reviewed By: Ilker Yücel, Editor, ReGen Magazine

Cylab's third album offers a fine collection of remixes that expand on the abilities and styles of both the band and the remixers.

"Disseminate may at first glance appear to be your ordinary average collection of remixes; in fact, that's really what it is, except for the fact that the mixes presented here not only serve as a complement to their original versions, but as a testament to the sense of growth and development the scene so sorely needs. We begin with the Found Thru Embodi mix of "Content," which only vaguely deviates from the original except to place a greater emphasis on ambient waves of elegant pads and some noisy percussion fills. Displacer's Polarized remix of "Satellites" follows, featuring some ghostly vocoder effects and drum loops that seem to bop and dance around the song's unique cadence, while God Module's mix of "Parting Fields" does well to keep up the danceable energy without devolving the track into the band's quintessential terror EBM clichés. A veritable club hit comes in the form of Imperative Reaction's version of "Dented Halos," as well as in Combichrist's EBM-meets-electroclash mix of "Kundalini," and even the Hype in a Party remix of "Parting Fields," although enjoyable in their own right as the most dance floor friendly tracks on display here, they are as such also the least interesting. Drukore's Nevermore reworking of "Tides" and the Graced by Shok mix of "Greys" are a little more raucous with distorted guitar-esque tones, offering more of a rock energy to Cylab's aggro-meets-ambient approach, but it is the band's cover of Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" that really screams for attention, remaining relatively faithful to the late Cobain's melancholy grunge hit aside from slightly altering the chord progression in the verses, though it works surprisingly well. Above all, Disseminate offers some intriguing variants of Cylab's music from some of today's bigger names in the scene, offering plenty of dance floor fodder, but also expanding on the abilities of all involved. It certainly does its part to build up anticipation for whatever new surprises Cylab will have in store in the future."

You can purchase "Disseminate" at CDBaby.com or from the official Cylab online store, where you'll received free shipping to anywhere within the US.