Yeah I think that's what gets me about it. At some points it's like you can imagine they've gone "OK, this needs a synth lead over the top here" and they've reached for a BoCish monosynth lead and jammed it in, and the whole thing just gets a bit... crowded. It's like each one of those sounds is similar to something that's been on a BoC track before, but I've never heard anything by them where they've just mushed them together like that.
It's pretty much all monosynths though. There's no sounds in there like the long, washy delay swooshes from the TCH era, no little punctuation from vintaged sounds that appear once and never appear again like Geogaddi... the drums are kind of set up as they are and they don't really develop much through the track... Apart from that one bit in Magic Timeline no samples culled from god-knows-where.
Above all, there's more space in the real stuff, more time for things to develop and then get out of the way for the next thing. This stuff has something else chucked in every few bars, like they're just so goddamn happy to be making a "BoC track". And you know, it's really OK stuff, musically, if they'd dialled back the trying to sound BoCish and it came out with another name on it I'd probaby buy it. But it's just... I might just believe this was a set of sketches, or jam sessions or something, but it doesn't feel like BoC.
I mean, the first time I heard Dead Dogs Two, way after hearing their other stuff, I thought "wow, this is a different sound for them", well, its a mix so it would be. But still, after a few seconds you can unquestioningly feel their hand in it, there's just something about the style of it that screams their imprint on it. This is the exact opposite of that, it's like it has a good line in ingredients (well, one set of ingredients, maybe) but everything about the style of it feels like it's someone else.
Just my 4c. Of course all that said it's going to turn out to be real now and I'll look like a dick
hahahaha I'm sorry but it's kinda hilarious. I open up this forum cuz I see something new and it's absolutely spammed and full of random shit.