With Datashock?s recent vinyl on Textile Records coming over as a little aimless and drowsily uninvolving, it?s a relief to find this cassette release by the German troupe sounds instantly more together. Lying somewhere between electronics, ambience and free-drone, with a thin backbone of structure, the A Side is a waking nightmare without the sinister vibes. There?s a steady pull of pulse-like gears that feels like the track is heaving something unidentified and unwanted over polished linoleum floors. On ?Rambo Wikinger? Datashock deliver a steady minimalism made of bevelled mirrors, reverbed vocal and an imperceptibly deteriorating and reforming texture. The flipside travels between squelchy noise/electronics and moments of Smegma-like instrumental magic. The stretches found in-between overlap as layers of disparate noises that somehow still gel. Making an itinerant bed for passing elements and instruments, there are magnificent moments of appealingly wasted horn and harmonica peppered throughout. Side B is more like a journey than an atmosphere, a ripple generating ride through day-and-night desert environments. Recorded a year apart, the spread of these two sides show Datashock carving out a place as a very capable collaborative unit. 8/10 -- Scott McKeating (22 April, 2008)