Instro beat makers Bacon and Shazam drew comparisons to Shadow and Krush with their Briztronix debut in 2005. The Brisbane duo's new album Structures of Canyons picks up where that record left off ...

 

Matt Levinson, FBI Radio

Photek gave us “Into The 90's”. Briztronix are giving us the '90's back with the superb second album Structures of Canyons. All hail Briztronix. More dope than a poppy field!

Hippopatmus Rex, 3PBS Radio

Briztronix foster a generously instrumental format. Cultivating spacious melodic passages backed with crisped, perhaps even BBQed beats, they muster a directed and potent force that harks back to the early days Golden-era US hip-hop.

Lawrence English, Room 40 Records

We might be in the realm of cold electronica, but these guys know how to introduce some cosiness and warmth to proceedings.

Benjamin Law, contributor Frankie + Nerds Gone Wild

 

 

Reviews of The Album by Briztronix:

 

Briztronix' debut album is a delightful work of beat-craft, sample pastiche and ambient pleasure. Toting itself as an instrumental hip hop album, it evokes memories of the Avalanches breakthrough sound of ‘Since I Left You’ but holds a grittier, underground integrity. The brainchild of Shazam and the scratchmaster DJ-Bacon, Briztronix The Album follows on from the act’s debut EP of 2002, and does it with lashings of dark beauty.

 

Dagman, In The Mix, 23.10.2005.

 

What species are Briztronix? Endemic to Brisbane but universal in their outlook, counting “tronix” as part of their evolution. Okay okay. Not electronica, not hip hop, not jazz, not post-rock: but touched by all the sub-genres that derive from those. How can any honest and hard-working artist in today’s world not be? Briztronixare down-to-earth downbeat, sincere and subtle in their approach whilst lurking in the shadows of anti-PC and tongue-in-cheek ...

... Sigur Ros gone Aussie hip hop?

 

Moses Iten, The Program, 05.10.2005

 

 

Classy instrumental hip-hop from Brisbane ...

 

Fenella Kernabone, Triple J Soundlab, 22.10.2005

 

 

... this is a very good album. In fact, it’s fantastic. Briztronix wear their downbeat hip hop hearts on their sleeves, and there is a lot of Ninja Tune meets DJ Shadow meets DJ Krush feel to their work but its completely genuine and as such, easily on the same level. It rather floored me to listen to it the first time ...

 

Segue Samplist blog, www.seguesamplist.com, 29.04.2006