Slum - Make Rainbow In Your Slum (Elf-Music)



Tracklist:

1. Future Is Ours >143 bpm
2. I Can Eat All Of Earth >145
3. Make Rainbow In Your Slum >145
4. Emog >144
5. Never Runaway Never >144
6. Why You Have My Beer? No Problem >144
7. Sneak, Beneath My Notice >145
8. Follow Me > 146
9.Trust Youth Days >147
10. Over The Revolution >135

Slum is Shuji Ichimura (formerly 50% of Phi) ,Make Rainbow In Your slum is his first solo album. The album was mixed & mastered by Hyuga Kashiwai, and was produced by Hiroki Tsutsumi. The graphic design was done Shuji Ichumura.

What's next? Slum's sound is very close to Phi's one, at the little difference the tones are less polished, more twisted. You almost always find a funky bass & frequently electric riffs. Now here are some specifities in each track:

1> Welcome, welcome seems to says the 30' intro in Future Is Ours with a big mischievous smile. I don't know if it comes from an old olympic games or a military musical band but it makes your eardrums fully open as it's a totally unexpected way for lauching the album.
2>From 2'15 you're submerged uder a fireworks of sharpy tones then with the break appears 2 new leads, one floating in the background & the lead one is very hacked but in the same tone quite soft.
3>Some brassy tones comes from 3'28. As it's the longer track (9'09), the tune evolves & turns into more cosmic morning & light on the end (from 7'54) .
4> There's a barking lead around 1'10. The attraction takes form under a robotized lead from 2'40 to 3'30.
5>It's more retained at first.On the final, there's an interesting fx on the electric riffs from 5'05.
6>There's a break based on a windy or reactor sample just a after short mewing (at 3'30). Otherwise, this tune is the one which looks like the most to the Phi's productions at equality with track1.
7> The rythmic is more hard-tek influenced (from 1'10) & the lead is more dark-noisy-apocalyptic (from 3'00); indeed globally here the atmosphere is more raw.
8>Come back to more usual Slum harmonies with a focus here on the metallic leads, like from 1'50 with this highly muted metal lead. It's a Mad stuff, but the public enjoy as their applause attest at 3'44. Then a little trick appears in the rythmic, it's like a photo-clic sound when you push the button to take a picture.
9> There's many sounds in the background, from 2'16 it reminds the sounds in the metro. Here the guitar lead is hugely streched at 3'50.
10> Last but chill one progresses like an urban walk under a night & starry skyscape.

Ok, so if you were a Phi's fan, i think there's 90% of chance you'll enjoy this Slum's album too, the surprise in less.
For those who still don't know Phi's sound, let's describe Slum's sound as "hard-neo full on-goa".
Favourites:2,7,8,10
8/10