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Crystal Zoom More Base ($7 from 27 Waiheke Rd, Waiheke Island) If the concept of Crystal Zoom still tends to tower over the music, then this tapes redresses the balance somewhat. Most of the actual songs were recorded in Dunedin with the old lineup and things are a bit more worked out than with the current live ensemble 'Obsession' and 'The Succulent Lifestyle' are the better ones, while 'Ganja Plantation' and ‘Dopeless In Detroit’ are awful. But the best bits of this tape relate to the thang itself, be they bits of pointed silliness like 'On the Cover Of the Rip It Up' or the pastiches of snatches of TV and radio monologue. Crystal Zoom have a mean eye and ear for the media and they should be developing and incorporating that, rather the rather grungy thrash they can perpetrate. Which is what the best track, the closing Entertainment This Week, does to a tee. Donga mate. RB
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Rip It Up, Issue 96, 1 July 1985, Page 32
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162On Tape Rip It Up, Issue 96, 1 July 1985, Page 32
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