Zombie Nation - Overshoot

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  • I'll admit from the start that I'm not firmly into the French Ed Banger/maximal type sound. But I was intrigued to hear what Zombie Nation was up to after being bombarded by "Kernkraft 400" during my formative years (the commercial version was actually a remix by DJ Gius). And after hearing Overshoot my views haven't changed particularly, but it's given me more respect for the style. You see, Florian Senfter knows exactly what he's up to. A massive, bashy riff made from some demented gorilla smashing around on a set of toms, further crackling rhythms, a structure that suddenly fires nitrous on all cylinders and stutters the main riff nicely, big fun in a vocal skit ("Oh yeah," "the beat is going on"; you get the idea). It's remarkable how much party he can stuff into a track without making it sound flat with overkill. "Squeek," meanwhile, has a squelchy, screaming hook and wacky farting noises. It's telling that he had a Facebook campaign where people sent in whatever samples they wanted for him to make a track out of—never a straight face. DJ Mehdi and Bart B More chop things up; here one section, then another. Mehdi adds a piano sound that follows the original, and big stop-start breaks into different passages with crashing cymbals, not miles away from the original but changed with regards to flow. Bart B More experiments with said flow even more, and it's hard to tell whether he's trying to make it more interesting or aiming for full-throttle club decimation and falling somewhat short. The Game Boy sounds that come in half way make it clearer: he's adding playfulness to the original. As if it needed it.
  • Tracklist
      01. Overshoot 02. Squeek 03. Overshoot (DJ Mehdi Remix) 04. Squeek (Bart B More Remix)
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