Reviewing S/T: (Sic!) Ahtoon Eskaloon (Get Happy Records BIG 05)
... while on the trail of Crevice, a seventies “United Artists” (Amon Düül 2 / Hawkwind) roseate glow surrounds their collaboration with a name familiar to these pages; the Frankfurt duo of S/T. Under the name of ( sic! ) the Ahtoon Eskaloon LP combines hard space riff-rock and kozmik cloud waft with bizarro tape froth and “noise” ( several band members’re credited with the latter - bless ‘em ). Strange choirboy ( ? ) samples and insidious IRMIN SCHMIDT (Can) style incantations (more UA refs!) give Hamburger Fonts suitable frisson. To up the ante a tad Automotif has a bass cousin to Floyd’s One of These Days which, during its journey is fired upon by a crack squad of Eno-men packing sound cannons. It’s an album full of freakish incident replete with secret trap doors dropping the listener into other dimensions (inc. Ladbroke Grove 1972). You’ll not find a more successful example of “Deutsche Amerikanische Freundschaft” this year.
Unknown, Ptolemaic Terrascope #31, 2002-01-17