Mental Illness II: Back in the Community


This review of Mental Illness II: Back in the Community, the new release from the Data:Bass Collective has just been published in New Zealand Musician Magazine:

"Whilst data:bass takes care of the drum'n bass underground in Auckland with it's DJ Collective, club nights and music releases, Mental Illness offers both the drum'n bass heads and the left-of- centre local electronic composer an outlet for more experimental forays.

This is the second major compilation and offers everything from hip-hop, chilled lounge, dubby steppers, blunted beats, electro tech, trance twistedness, to a bit of drill'n bass. The range of artists and styles represented is vast but by no means disparate or jarring. Essentially the living, breathing definition of "sampler" in all it's true marvellous multifariousness- it's great to hear so much creativity out there. You'd do well to check out tyhe likes of Dialator, Audioslut, Jamie Newman, The Downlow, Doctor Lovelazy, Atomik, Further, Emu and others now or in the near future. The discs are available for peanuts through In Music or at play records on K- Road. The underground is alive and well!"

For those of you outside Auckland who may want to get hold of a copy, we'll have Mental Illness II: Back in the Community CDs up for sale in the TMet store next week.

Well done to Matt (Romantech) and the Data:Bass crew!