(COP International Records) A fair-to-middling techno sole-proprietorship, Chiasm spotlights Michigan's Emileigh Rohn, posed on her album cover as an anarchinatrix in paramilitary Gap gear, poorly accessorized with a non-threatening doe-eyed stare. She's leveling a pistol at you in the photo, which, it would stand to reason, is fair warning that the listener is about to expose his or her ears to a nice tall glass of buzz-and-boom kick-butt. Kickoff track "Embryonic," however, skulks around packing naught but a load of stock goth tuneage and Chuck E Cheese death fixation, after which it lays down with its paws up expecting a vigorous belly rub for performing those rudimentary tricks. The big picture isn't altogether awful, though, and indeed much of it - the sexy trance of "Rewind" most of all - would fit the bill when the deejay is of an orgying mind. What's not great are Rohn's tiresome flails at KMFDM-hardass sentiments; although she'd love to terrorize the countryside, her strengths lie in cream-puff technopop. In the next life maybe. [Review by Eric W. Saeger]

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