Titel: Thomas Christoph Heyde - High Culture Motherfucker [HCMF Rebords - 0000]
Publikation: Musique Machine 12/2008

High Culture Motherfucker/ is juddering often manic ride that jumps
between atmopsrics/ dramatics & playfulness often. Utilizing a mixture
of live electronics, turntable elements, percussion, piano, brass and
strings for it’s often rollercoaster like ride.

What makes this all so rewarding is you never know what element, noise
or twist will be thrown into the mix next - with each track been a
hyperactive trip in it’s own right. We go from the opener/ Fileldz/
which starts off with a pressing heat haze like electro buzz and small
turntable elements & then slowly builds up it’s strange sonic
picture world with; cut-up often comedic percussion elements, swirling
strings and dramatic/epic to piano rolls and bellowing epic prog like
gitar samples. Or/ Waves from underground/ which pitchers ripping
elector pulse, sampled piano tinkle and organ hover against boisterous
harmonic and atmospheric boson wondering. Or the sultry and sinister
blowing tone of the opening of /Fernen/ with it’s mixture of 3
recorder’s, live eletroincs and weirdly voclising - that comes across
like some strange and at times sureal séance session. Before the track
dips into pulsing almost African meets surrealistic sound bobbing and
rhythmic pulse march.

Really a very strange and wonderful sonic trip that stretchers and
dancers between dramatic and cinematic mood making, improv and
playfulness & highly creative elctronica. With each track been its own
strange often jarring but always effective sonic adventure in its own
right. 4/5

Roger Batty