"EL TORTURA

7" (Estrus Records ES 748, USA) initial copies on Red Vinyl
Percolator Stomp / El Tortura
 

 

KFJC's Phil Dirt
Trad surf with a punk attitude. Dutch surfers with incredible energy, radical speed.
PERCOLATOR STOMP: There's no Sterno needed to percolate the coffee bubba, just a few seconds of "Percolator Stomp." Excellent, thick, and very powerful. EL TORTURA: "El Tortura" defines surf sludge! It's huge, lumbering, intense, majorly dark and mean. Riff surf a la Link Wray at Waimea.Thunder, monster tubes, and pure evil.
 
Maximum Rock"nRoll #137(MJ)
Two moody, Dick Dale inspired surfinstrumentals. Both songs are good, but lately I’ve started to lose my patience with the sheer number of surfbands getting stuff released, it just never ends. Does Billy Childish have something to do with this?
 
Rocktober Magazine (USA)
Belgian simian instrumental rock at it's finest. This 45 doesn't have a b-side. It's divided into SideA and Side1, Neither one plays second fiddle to nobody’s nothin’.
 
Unknown
Just who are these Apemen? They are four Dutch wildmen who’ve watched too much 60’s American TV and listened to too many Surfers albums, that who. “Percolator Stomp” opens and closes with the sound of an old coffee pot gurgling and is one piping hot example of how the Europeans are becoming just as adept as their American counterparts in making great surf music. “El tortura” is like listening to a dominatrix whip a gremmie out on muscle beach, it screams!