Hooverphonic
A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular (Epic)
by Lex Marburger
Alright, boys, load it in. Careful, careful. Hey, Joe – keep your end up! Don’t ya know what you’ve got there? Shit, that’s a model CX2000 Hooverphonic, moron. Whaddaya mean, “whaddaya mean?” Okay, big shot, these guys in Belgium realized that if ya take half of a Portishead and do something Tricky to it, you end up with A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular. You follow me? Yeah, why do ya think it’s so heavy? That’s the low end, the part you’ve got right there. Kinda rounded and it throbs, too. Now, over there, that computer generates what kind of rhythm this thing’ll take. Hmm? Oh, not too fast. This Hooverphonic does its work insistently, it doesn’t hold for all that stuff that those ZZ3450 Prodigy models spit out. No, this is more delicate. I mean, look at that high end over there.