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Around since 1985 (one year after William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the book from which they got their name), Mad Capsule Markets didn’t break through in the US until 1999 — but the time was right. Recently retooled into digital hardcore destroyers, they fit in perfectly in a music scene where Atari Teenage Riot appeared on movie soundtracks and Slipknot were about to surface. A spot in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 for the hyperpunk “Pulse” surely didn’t hurt, either. This bounces all over the genre map within its own brutal breakcore boundaries — “All the Time in Sunny Beach” goes from rap metal to a cheery chorus out of a seventies sitcom. “Tribe,” “Out/Definition,” and “Restart!” keep the energy in the red the whole time.

Jeff Treppel

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