REVIEWS reviews...... sounds...... pictures...... words...... links...... info fromVital e-magazine from the Staalplaat office Number 123 - Week 15/1998   RHOMB - HIDDEN TOPOGRAPHIES (CD by The Foundry) Another CD by The Foundry label (who released the excellent eM CD a while ago, as well as two CD's that didn't make it to these pages). Rhomb is somebody on whom I have no information at all. His CD contains 10 tracks with the average pop length: 4 to 6 minutes, but that's all there is to popmusic. He (she?) fools around with samples dark drums, playing one steady beat and sounds (either synthetic or found) are free to travel in the mix. The atmopshere which it tries to evoke are nice, but maybe no more then just nice. The synthetic sounds start to irritate after a while, like you are waiting for some howling guitar, or silly voice to come, but it never happens. To sit through all 10 pieces in a row, I thought was a bit too much, but in small doses this wasn't bad either. It's one of those, 'yeah ok CD's'. (FdW)