Elektriciteit Is Onze Hobby Ik Hoor De Muziek Niet HK011 cdr + 20 page A5 booklet (50 ex.) 2008

Review:

This is the follow-up to 'Diodeneiland', a 3" CDR released by Audio Office Records (see Vital Weekly 617) of the collective called Elektriciteit = Onze Hobby, who played together in concert on february 8, 2008.
Like before they handed the audio files to Kasper van Hoek for mixing and editing of the material. More than the previous, or so we are lead to believe, this is an album of them playing together on their modified electronic toy instruments with less extensive than before. And that is something that can unfortunately be heard here. The pieces here are more of an improvised nature, haphazard like played, all over the place.
The third (untitled) piece reminded me, mainly through the singing, of music by The Hitmachine: the rhythmmachine ticking the beat, fucked up electronica and speak singing in a silly, childish way. Listening to the lyrics, this might be the title track of the release.
I think I prefer the more extensive editing and making this into a more coherent musical enterprise than this rather free form play.
The cover, a booklet with drawings by all five members is however much nicer than the previous. Time to find the balance between the two.

Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly 625