Get Down

Previously released on vinyl only 2002. Boomkat review: 'Get Down' was the third full length solo album from Peter Rehberg and in typically mischievous style was originally released on vinyl only. I remember distinctly the record coming out as a DJ I knew bought it to play out and it struck me how strange it was for any kind of DJ to be working with a Pita record, but then that's why it was released on vinyl wasn't it? The Mego press release quotes "Highly efficient as a tool for daring DJ's (main floor, chill + experimental mediums suited!)" placing it squarely in the domain of electronic dance music, but then coming from Pita you know you're going to get something a little left of the norm, and that's exactly what 'Get Down' is. While not as symphonic or epically constructed as it's predecessor 'Get Out', 'Get Down' still manages to do that most difficult of things, to combine the hideously extreme with the ineffably beautiful and to produce noise music that dares to edge into other genres without alienating the fanboys. From the opening track, cunningly titled 'We Don't Need No Music' it's obvious we're in the presence of something great with grim, rasping noise sitting eerily beneath a squeaking synthesizer melody which would surely be more at home in a Disney movie or on a ballroom dancefloor. Elsewhere we get the echoing, resonating post-technoid madness of 'Our Pen', the pre-Analord acid noise of 'Acid Udon' (you need to hear this, Aphex fans - trust me) and we're eventually brought to a more than satisfying close with the crunching and occasionally symphonic 'Fine Swex' (which reminds me more than it should of Doctor Who).