Apparently, Lorber's squillionth release was inspired by house music and indeed takes its title from Tony Wilson's Manc club of the same name. However, devotees of New Order or the Happy Mondays may wander around the delights of Lorber's CD in some sonic confusion. Hacienda is straightahead fusion, decorated around the edges with some groovesome dance floor vibes, as on the closing ‘Dragonfly’. But Madchester it ain't. Indeed, Lorber fans will be more intrigued with his re-visiting of Zappa's monster ‘King Kong’. Lorber's ‘Kong’ features none other than Frank's old pals Ponty and Ed Mann, vibrant with the marimba theme. Annoyingly though, nothing else on Hacienda has quite such bite: even the aggressively monickered ‘Raptor’ slides into a radio friendly funk groove. Marienthal is class in whatever context, and such a stellar line up aren't ever going to sound like typewriters, but you can't help feel Hacienda is familiar names floating through too familiar grooves.