VOITECK LIVE AT YOUR MAMA'S Truck Musik/AUS/CD Melbourne Australia's Voiteck Andersen bought his first piece of gear in 1993 and hasn't looked back. In fact, he's done nothing but drag the Australian music scene kicking and screaming toward the year 2000. He operates the Truck Musik label, records for it and many others including California's vaunted Plug Research, and, most notably, performs live regularly with a truckload of gear in an age where laptop musicians seem to be the only ones willing to truck music gear about for live performances. Now Voiteck doesn't mind performing in small venues, just as he's perfectly happy to perform for large crowds. Among his hundreds of performances, he's supported the likes of Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Luke Slater and other name artists. But what about the music? Simply put, Voiteck knows how to bring the noise and though his electronic soundforce sometimes feels like a train about to hurtle off the tracks, he's perfectly happy to have it this way. No two performances are alike, nothing is preplanned or simple as "just press this button and let it play". Voiteck's "Live At Your Mama's" culls bits of performance from the last couple of years in his schedule and is a vibrant reminder of the power of analog machines forced modulating and screaming into action by a talented mind and just two hands. Andrew Duke Back to album/book reviews index