VIRTUART DRUMZ, BASS & DOUBLE CREAM ALBUM INTOXYGENE RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2001 REVIEW: SEPTEMBER 26, 2001

I'm drowning! There are too many records in my home, they pile up everywhere, I'm sure they multiply when I'm asleep at night. Soon, I'm going to have to throw my bed out and start sleeping on hard CD covers. I'll get a bad back but the records won't care, they will just keep on multiplying. So maybe I'm not at my most receptive right now, but I still can't help asking myself if another chilled out drum'n'bass record is really what the world needs.
Virtuart's "Drumz, Bass & Double Cream" is well produced, comfortably mellow and really not bad at all, but - and this is a problem that I see more and more in music - it doesn't seem to have been done with any particular purpose. It doesn't tell me anything, doesn't transmit any emotions. A bit of excitement is added when The Young Gods' Al Monod adds a bit guitar play in one song: But otherwise this is as flat a record as they come.

KRISTOFFER NOHEDEN