If you are one of the below DJs and don’t want your feedback shared, let me know. 

• “Parasite contains 5 tracks. The opening songs is identical to the album title and contains hars, but familiar beats, ready-cut for the dancefloor with little vocoded vocals. Fractured Lights is a more relaxed song, ambient in nature but seemingly fit for the clubs as well. Even less BPM contains Control, with emphasis on lyrics, fighting for…control. The Kong rmx doesn\’t add much but the Virul3nt rmx of Parasite is nicely done and highly danceable.” - Denniz
• “nice ep with some good clubtracks, although maybe a bit to trancy ( especially the remixes )” - X-X-X
• “Wow, what a great promo this is!!! Maybe not the most original music, but it still stands out!!” - djSPUD
• “I like your sound!” - Cheminee
• “Typical EBM release. Good dancefloor stuff and easy to the ears written songs. Unfortunately not surprising enough to give some new input to the over-crowded scene. Still, the heavier beat oriented songs can compete with most acts in the scene and that should be (more than) enough to crowd a dance floor.” - Beautevil
• “The synthesizer on Parasite does sound like a mosquito and fits in nicely, the sound itself is raw but loud and will do great for the dance floor. Vocally it is quite moderate and typical for the dark electro sound.
  Fractured Light has a nice slow but danceable sound with a nice bass line and good kick. The high synth is a welcome change in sound.
  Control has a really freakish sound to it, lovely in contrast to the title. The synth resembling a theremin/female vocal is really nice done. Even the guitars that I usually loathe in electronic music have a great place in this song. For me this is easily the best song on this EP, but not suited for the dance floor, but in any other setting it might do great.
  Parasite (Virul3nt mix) is a better mix for the dance floor than the original.
  The Control (Kong mix) doesn\’t really do better than the original which is a shame.” - Nosferius

Here’s a funny story about how I submitted the CDs to Cybercase.  I already knew Kees (pronounced “Case”), the owner, as he had organised a Crystalline Effect tour in April 2008 in NL and was similarly promoting the Crystalline Effect EP “Hypothermia” to his pool. 
In August 08, when we were heading to NL for Summer Darkness, I e-mailed Kees and asked if he’d like to promote the Parasite EP.  He said yes, and to hand him the box of CDs at the festival.  He said he would be DJing just before Combichrist’s set on the Friday night, and to find him in the booth and hand him the discs there.  So on the night I find him and handed him the box.  I ask him if he wants a drink, which he does, and I then head to the bar.  When I come back to hand him the drink, he said “next song’s yours”, and sure enough the next song to come out over the PA was Parasite (Virul3nt mix) to a roomful of hundreds of dancing Combichrist fans.  Total trial by fire!  Incidentally, the track held the room just fine.  At this point I was infinitely glad we shelled out for pro mastering (from Kolja/Soman), so it could compete sonically with the other agressive EBM tracks played. 

So yes, farewell to London!  Over the course of our time here we did see plenty of great bands and went to plenty of cool parties.  Unfortunately we’ve been living in a bona fide ghetto area (Seven Sisters), so the filthy setting in a violent atmosphere set the tone for our daily lives.  Catching the tube and changing at Kings Cross at peak hour twice a day, being pushed into a Northern Line carriage by hundreds of dead-eyed suits, was at best “undignified”, and the world’s seemingly longest winter didn’t help matters. 
Of course, there was plenty of good to balance out the harsh, and not just the bands and the parties, but the point is our time here is over for the near future and I’m looking forward to hitting The Netherlands. 

Right now Kong and I are working full steam on the debut Shiv-r album.  This is our main focus now and the music’s sounding nice & dark.  It will take a bit of time to get settled in The Netherlands but it won’t take long to set up my music-space again so the album progress won’t be too hindered.  At this rate we should be finished the writing process by the end of the year. 

My next post should be from Amsterdam…