Forever Sweet Geben & Nehmen Ladomat 9/98 [Ladomat 2071-1/2071-2] Neuton Ladomat's most endearing quality is their continued insistence on putting a slight twist on their releases. This may be minimal and it may be in the house ballpark, yes, but it's got that certain Ladomat otherness to it. Probably doesn't hurt that Forever Sweet is Cologne's Michael Mayer, Tobias Thomas, and that Reinhard Voigt character (again). Their sound here is like that of Profan, but with a busier attitude and a bizarre combination of samples. "Don't Speak", for example, is propelled by the occasional female spoken word "I don't wanna talk" and triggered chord progression snatched from somewhere unknown. And that's the whole joy of it really, not looping up some oldschool bits and filtering them to death, FS instead program their own groove and then chuck a chunk of classical strings in there or a chopped up rave hook from back then somewhere else. Cheeky, swingin', and a different sort of fun(k). --Andrew Duke Back to album reviews index