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		The Hafler Trio How To Reform Mankind CD Korm Plastics Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $14.00 Following the scientific model in which the researcher returns to the same problem set with slight variations to better understand the solutions that come from those equations, The Hafler Trio have often recontextualised previously issued sounds in alternative environments and compositions. Originally released in 1993, How To Reform Mankind is the final entry to the 'trilogy in three parts' alonside Kill The King and Mastery Of Money, and picks up on this self-recycling theme. The Halfer Trio's Andrew McKenzie lifts a dreamy mirage of feedback from Walk Through The Gates Of Joy and notably the piano leitmotif that comprised the Negentropy album. Far from presenting a taxonomic exercise of early successes, McKenzie sets ip a psychological interplay between sound and momeory, in which the signposts from previous works are no longer recognisable. Surrounded by field recordings smeared into an industrial grey, sonar pings and eerie vocal shriekings, How To Reform Mankind is ultimately another magnificent, disorientating conundrum.