Only 333 CD copies with an elegant Vinyl Replica package, cover embossessed And seven stickers for “Dirt Collector”. The new album of the Mazut – duo of electronic music, industrial, techno, acid, and ambient, coming from Poland – is an intelligent tribute to electronic music of the 80s, an evolution of the expressionist and abrasive sounds of the Cabaret Voltaire, but also the umpteenth confirmation of a European scene continuously ferment.
Paweł Starzec and Michał Turowski lift the most varied and complex sequence of their record career. This new project contains ten years of attendance with the hypnotic sounds of industrial and environmental music (“The Original Sound”), the most experimental phases of Techno (“Casualties Union”) and the ambitions of the Dance-Music that revive with increasingly robotic and less human appearances (“Paranoid Park”).
It is an album to be explored with care with “Dirt Collector”, the Mazuts investigate the many possible interactions between man and technology with restless sound plots (“The Fountain of Negactivity”), bizarre and almost ironic industrial-minimal exasperations (“You Try to make people upset, but nobody gives a fuck”), but what impresses is the skill is the skill. of the duo in shaking clearness and sound lucidity of complex, enigmatic and obsessive musical landscapes (“Ear”, “Shounded in Obscurity”).
Few uncertainties of a job that abundantly exceeds listening hour, with the last four tracks that are also among the most intense and innovative. The interaction between the electronic mediations of the cosmic couriers and the brilliant rhythmic fractures of Daniel Szwed's battery in “Slow Cancelation of the Future” are suggestive and terrifying at the same time. The electro-rock button of “Force and Form” is irresistible, like the song of the sirens (electric).
With equal fervor the decadent evolution of the title track slips towards a melancholy anguish with apocalyptic tones, while the brilliant flow of loopdecelerated synths and “eye” voices falls the curtain on a project that perhaps does not add much to what has already been expressed in this stylistic area, but the Mazuts certainly deserve attention.
08/10/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
