- Hadamard's world is far removed from the gangster spheres where stretch limos and crates of Cristal are the norm. Instead, the Dutch producer documents the thrills and spills of living in Appledoorn, and all the risks and dangers that go with it. Life on the city's mean streets is best documented on "I Ain't Having That," where Hadamard recalls over acid flecked 808s how he had to take pre-emptive action because "if I hadn't hit him first, I'm sure I'd be dead."
Apart from some other garbled mutterings on the intro and outro tracks "Hadamard" and "Studio Gangster"—the latter also makes reference to his murky hip-hop past—he prefers to let the music document his existence. There are no prizes for guessing that this is neither easy nor upbeat listening: Bleak synths and crashing drums and snares feature heavily on "Rollin' on Chrome," whose abrasive groove is nonetheless pitched at the right tempo for techno DJs, while robot commands and eerie pads are swept up into a dense, bassy soup on "The Payback." Eeriest of all though is "The Underground." With its looped horror rave samples and juddering atonal bass, it's as unsettling on the system as a handful of hash cookies washed down with a six-pack of Special Brew.
Tracklist A1 Hadamard
A2 Rollin' on Chrome
A3 The Underground
A4 Touch the Floor
B1 The King
B2 I Ain't Having That
B3 The Payback
B4 The Studio Gangster