This album is a journey through electronic moods which manages to couple New Age prettiness with a relentless warparty Ethnic sound and cycling sequencers, weaving the variety of themes and patterns into a seamless audio picture gallery of lightweight images. Okay, so there's a refreshing simplicity to the music, but this isn't unthinking preset arrangements - there is a definite evolutionary quality to each of the pieces, and some wonderful moments (certainly the second piece with it's intense drumming which raises the pulse rate; and, I think, the fourth piece with it's distinctive tune you wish would go on for a lot longer - difficult to say where one piece ends and the next begins - they blend cleverly into one another). This is plain, simple, but entertaining electronic music. It's not fast or intense enough to be danceable; nor is it noisy or weird enough to be Industrial or particularly Experimental; neither is it busy enough (or sterile enough) to fit into the VANGELIS / TANGERINE DREAM area of Electronica; and as close as it is to New Age, it's lack of cliche (no wailing Native Americans, no flute, no harp, no whalesong or wolfhowl) along with it's occasional foray into noise precludes it from becoming another Hippy Shop ambient background sound. No, it is none of the above, yet takes elements from all of them. The closest I can think to compare it to would be JAN HAMMER's more incidental, less tune-fronted sound. Eclectic and always listenable, CACOPHONY '33' should never be confused with unfocused Tape Culture artists - they (he) are (is) far better than many of his contemporaries and, unable or unwilling to release on a more permanent medium, was probably tarred undeservedly by the brush of amateurishness. KEV, the guy behind this has come a long way, leaving his earlier recordings far behind. As for CULT GOES CULTURE, I know little. Their involvement on this recording makes them worth keeping an eye out for. At times it even moves into the realms of electronic Rock (sounding not at all unlike a more constructed but no less listenable EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN) with strong, fast, Punky, Metally Rock with strong degrees of Industrial (curiously there's a metal-bashin' feel to this, although I can find no actual metal sounds). The vocals are in German & English taking about equal measure. The first side appeals more to me, but CULT GOES CULTURE do have a strong distinctive style which is worth checking out, and I'm sure a lot of people would find this the more enjoyable side! While the styles do not naturally sit together, they are both deserving of a wide following, and the quality's about as high as it comes on cassette. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.