T-O-T-A-L T-H-R-A-S-H!!! I could say this is the South American R.D.R., with a Cool Whip dollop of Larm's slop or Rapt's blubbery bursts...though plenty of Imagen's peers were abusing that scrapier end of hardcore simultaneously. All those late 80s Colombian bands kicked culos, but tonight we're focusing our electron microscopes on Imagen...From the demos to the lone EP, the band maintains a confusing stylistic consistency. One song will be thrashcore, or an efficient Psycho Sin, or a s-i-m-p-l-i-s-t-i-c 1-2 punker to get you dolphin flippin'. Production values are a mystery. It's not boombox...but if it's studio, it's the kind of studio available to late night public access TV shows of the early 80s (there's still decent mixing and reverb). The EP sounds the most (noticeably) plugged-into-the-console of all the recordings, yet ironically has the sharpest clarity. None of these are black marks, the recordings are resourceful and charmingly fitting to a band of Imagen's ilk. Why they never received an authorized discography is beyond me.
