(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)

Stalemate (Cargo, 1995) was the debut album of Synthesia Murder Program (Jason Bazinet and Sean Setterberg, from Seattle), after a hardcore past, two cassettes and a single that progressively defined their personality. Theirs is a militant industrial music that relies predominantly on samples. The lyrics, shouted disorderly, and the mechanical beat of the electronic percussion are all in all irrelevant compared to the wild jungle of samplings. It is they, in their immense encyclopedism of subcultures, that propel the very hard speeches of Pure Uncut Anger and Cops. It is they who compose the polyrhythmic dances that sound like ceremonies of the post-industrial civilization, up to the pure delirium of the hammering Alcohol Part One. It is they who grant the few "comic" pauses, in Residents-like gags like Homeless. It is they above all who plunge 415 into a dark sense of alienation and immerse 1999 and Punch in the most unsettling futurism, in their metallurgical nightmares and their terrifying visions of a world dominated by machines. The singing makes its way in Backwards and We've Got A Problem, which are Nine Inch Nails-style songs and are the only ones that can hope for a minimum of radio airplay. A cross between Public Enemy and Tackhead.

Ultimatum (Catastrophe, 1998) is an imposing crossover of rap, dub, heavy-metal and industrial (best exemplified by Topside).l