I love Synapse's "Get the Freaks and Get Some" for its electro-tonic 'techno in the New York house tip. "Get Some" just keeps you jamming while its temperature gently rises and "The Freak" is a '90's P-Freakin Funk tribute, if you know what I mean.  

With another sip of the another sip of the Serotonin serum this experimental DJ effectively intercepts the ill effects from "bins of blandness" disease. Our hero, Youngman, sets forth a superb quartet of hybrid techno drums and basses. Arranging techno frameworks with drum and bass fireworks, this is one hybrid searing into some seriously new sounding skins! Timestreched kick drums rip along side familiar freejazzing electronica like some streetfight between the Hangable Auto Bulb gang and the Private Lightning six!  

Jason Szostek, former meember of P909 and now the head honcho behind Serotonin Records NYC, certainly delivers in this release. "Electronic Personae" is very nice techie-electro, highly playable, although  sufficiently deep. More electro with "We Are the Same", this one is alittle more retro-sounding with a prominent vocodered sample that evolves throughout. On the flip side are "Identity Crisis" and "Born Again Human"... I think thses are two tracks although they flow into each other without a real break. Very sweet loungey atmosheric ambientish stuff, perfect for those chillout times. A very solid release, definately get on the electro bandwagon and check it out.  

Jason Szostek strikes under his own name for a change with Multiples. The title pays homage to YMO, while the music rinterprets his personality as it reflects in his music making. It sounds a bit complicated, but the music itself stands on its own feet repectably. This he says is "not a dance record" nor is it "listening music", but simply "electronic music". As bland an explanation as that may seem, it's spot on. While electro-styled rhythms creep, the overall feel reveals a debth that indicates something more. The robot vocoder on "We Are the Same" fires its conformist diatrib with an insightful wit challenging techno's reivention of itself:"every other year/we switch back to the old school/so no one has to fear/that it won't be the same". Well said.  

More electro madness from Serotonin, this time care of NYC's resident freak and techno-cowboy John Selway. "Millenium Sound" is straight up electro awsomeness, with more of that vocoder sillyness. Totally awesome jackin' shit.  "excession" is also on the electro tip, although this one is a little more bare, minimal, techie. B Side brings us "Position". which is on the loungey electronica freakout tip, I like it. "Velozone" is one of those pieces that dosen't fit into one, two, or three genres well at all, and this is what makes it excellent and experimental. If I had to describe it, I'd say a cross between Detroit techno, techstep D'n'B, and electro. Sorta. But not. Buy it and see, dolt!