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"The cheese. The lack of emotion. The lack of subtlety. Oh God I have a love hate relationship with eighties movie soundtracks. And with shimmering synth, a wailing guitar, slap bass and again that overought cheesy synth I’m back in the midst of that fantastically terrible world populated by Harold Faltemeyer (Fletch), Wang Chung (To Live and Die in LA) and whoever that dude was who did that rockin soundtrack to Magnum. Askii’s (Adam Milburn’s) The One is but the opening track to Decomposition, a compilation of music for short film, interactives and installations by a gaggle of innovative, genre bending and fearless local Melbourne musicians and sound artists, all curated under Philip Brophy’s Sound Punch records. Aside from the hysterical and traumatic trips down memory lane, there’s a restrained electro ditty from Two4k, some gloomy windswept atmospheric work from Tim Catlin, some cheeky electro space pop with more sides than a rubix cube from Cornel Wilczek (Qua) and a sort of jolly watered down Disney does space end credits theme of sorts from Brophy. Everything is here, the music touches on movie soundtrack conventions then moves fearlessly off into unknown or unexpected realms. There are no studios bearing down on these folks and the freedom is palpable in the terrain they traverse."
Bob Baker Fish Cyclic Defrost No. 9 November 2004
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