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Oct 9, 2012In terms of its complexity and level of skill on display Breakthrough is a big step up for Bensussen.
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Oct 1, 2012For all its varied elements is all too clearly the expression of the demented but coherent vision of one man. You will find no better way to fry your mind this year.
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Sep 25, 2012Bensussen has delivered a varied, immersive set of highly memorable, enjoyable and danceable tracks that should push him further into the limelight where he has triumphantly proved he belongs.
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Sep 20, 2012[Breakthrough] is so much more than the hectic pastiches of exoticism that The Gaslamp Killer is famous for. Meticulous arrangements, pace, narrative and emotional authenticity are prioritized over an all-out assault of catatonia-inducing madness to convey its message.
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Q MagazineSep 17, 2012Potent incantations such as Nissim and, particularly, the two tracks with Warp's sinister rapper Gonjasufi, prove this to be a wonderfully bananas breakthrough. [Oct 2012, p.100]
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Sep 19, 2012Breakthrough-- which it is and isn't-- feels like the kind of record his adventurous precedent has made into a familiar signature. It's the album that gets at his recent creative mode most definitively, the one people might figure he had in him rather than the one that changed anybody's minds about him.
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Dec 13, 2012It's about as weird and wonderful as you'd expect from a guy who looks like he's been living on a commune for the past ten years.
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Oct 12, 2012Breakthrough is an eclectic and challenging record that features more than a few sublime moments of heady bong-haze depth.
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Sep 26, 2012Breakthrough is a substantive piece of work, an album to be reckoned with by critics and fans alike; for it not only fulfills the promise of Mr. Killer's production work on A Sufi and a Killer, but also establishes an entirely new (and maybe impossibly high) set of expectations for a producer who appears possessed of genius.
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Sep 25, 2012The 47 minutes diced into 17 tracks that consitute Breakthrough demonstrate what Gaslamp Killer is capable of.
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Sep 17, 2012Breakthrough is a challenge for listeners, and the producers that make up the growing California beats scene.
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Sep 17, 2012Many of these tracks--indeed some of the most interesting--are more snippets than fully developed destinations. But there are real skills on display here.
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Sep 17, 2012This is music that you dive into wholeheartedly when there's time to examine its mutilated layers.