Blasting local venues this summer with his industrial synth crust sonics, Schkeuditzer Kreuz unveiled Second Life: No Life Left Remixed late last week — as the name suggests, a collection of reworks from the artist's second album No Life Left. Roaming from ear-scraping breakbeat-scapes reminiscent of Tetsuo: The Iron Man to pulse-pounding EBM to skull-trepanning powernoise to mind-mashing doom, Second Life: No Life Left Remixed provides an ominous appetiser before Schkeuditzer Kreuz's first ever NZ tour. So, to hear people strip it down to its barest components and then build it back up into something new, in their own image – this is awesome to me. I love it when they’re ruthless and pay no heed to the original at all. Fuck, but I could not be happier – from crazy glitched out breakcore weirdness to oozing, sludgy heavy doom stuff to dancey as fuck 80s synth goth.
