Coll: Mind and Body Label: Atomic Novelties
A double disk compilation with one disk each to represent
both sides of the industrial world: ambient and dance (hence
"Mind and Body"). I like the Mind disk a lot. The Body
disk isn't bad, but too much of it has an 80s synth pop
feel.
This, incidentally, is the first collection of work by
people who hang out on the usenet newsgroup
rec.music.industrial: "Local" music from a virtual space.
Highlights:
DISK I: MIND
I(2) 4:12 Urban Ambience Drug Dilemma
blips, noises, jazzy licks, murky mangled vox samples
"war on drugs" and so on. Industrial-jazz that starts
sparse and then fills in and gets very cool.
I(4) 9:57 D.A.C. Crowell The Fall of Shartoa
Begins with basic ambient techno sound, but quickly fills in
to a really interesting spacey, ominous industrial ambient
piece. Lots of high organesque notes attacking, over a bed
of deep bass industrial drones and throbs. This gets
increasingly noisy and intense. Excellent.
I(6) 4:51 Trance Vicious Circle
Nice slow murky stuff, with a *slightly* distorted whispery
vox thing going, occasional outbursts of noise. Very cool.
I(11) 4:55 The Unit Circle Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net
Industrial drone loop, symphonic string sounds over
it. Nicely ominous. Lots of storm sounds in the middle. A
windy, echoy finish, with an oddly happy ambient techno kind
of feel to it.
I(13) 5:14 Corpses Last The Whales and Dolphins
Contact Half-Served
Really nice rhytmic cut up of little blips of voice samples and noises.
DISK II: BODY
II(1) 2:16 Insult gee
Fast (too fast to dance?) industrial with lots of
samples from The Prisoner:
"You tell me one thing, what was in your mind?"
cool.
II(6) 6:20 Surgery Tomorrow Shit All Over You
slowish, deep, heavily fuzzed up/reverbed, occassional vox
samples piercing the buzzing murk. nifty.
II(8) 4:02 Slur Singular
cool fast moving stuff. tough & angry.
II(17) 3:02 The Evolution Control The Industrial Polka
Committee
Lead with german, bunch of random silly samples. Pretty
funny. British style comedy vox, carnival/night club sound,
lyrics appear to be *about* industrial music. Mega Cool.
Here's the BODY breakdown (that's DISK II):
80's sound: 2 3 9 12 13
Fast: _1_ 2 3 _8_ 13 14 16
Mid: 5 9 10 15 _17_
Slow: 4 _6_ 7 11 12
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The whole disk, track by track:
DISK I: MIND
1 4:07 grae.com New Age Love Song
Alternate voice samples and noise... ends with interesting
almost religious/choral music.
2 4:12 Urban Ambience Drug Dilemma
blips, noises, jazzy licks, murky mangled vox samples
"war on drugs" and so on. Industrial-jazz that starts
sparse and then fills in and gets very cool.
3 5:36 KILLED by a BLOW mysteries of
in the HEAD pakistan (for phil)
Pseudo-Indian music, with distorted (and or low
fi) spoken vox. Listenable, but probably kinda dumb.
4 9:57 D.A.C. Crowell The Fall of Shartoa
Begins with basic ambient techno sound, but quickly fills in
to a really interesting spacey, ominous industrial ambient
piece. Lots of high organesque notes attacking, over a bed
of deep bass industrial drones and throbs. This gets
increasingly noisy and intense. Excellent.
5 8:11 Macronympha Masturbation Mantra
Spoken vox and slow throbbing beat distorted in a very
annoying staticy way, but it does get a bit better.
A woman babbling about the importance of masturbation,
probably from some silly talk show. Not bad, but a bit long
for what it is.
6 4:51 Trance Vicious Circle
Nice slow murky stuff, with a *slightly* distorted whispery
vox thing going, occasional outbursts of noise. Very cool.
7 2:23 Crazy Ivan My Ass Is Ivory
Growling voice, electronic buzzing, mouth noises like horse
clip-clops. Okay in a weird way, not exciting.
8 3:52 John Grigsby Sequence
Kind of spooky attacks of electronic sounds, like early
analog synth music. Okay.
9 11:13 John Eichenseer Down at the Blue Cafe
Begins with some fairly quiet rumbling. Spoken vox like
jazz rapping "Come in, relax" and then recites some of
Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". It sounds like you're in some
sleazy bar or cabaret... A voice comes in introducing you to
"the blue cafe", and then starts babbling about how the "moon
is a genius"... in general this is lots of odd cut up
jazzy/bluesy sounds, with occasional industrial noises, and
spoken pieces with a theatrical sound like say the Firesign
Theater or Frank Zappa.
10 4:28 Total Harmonic The Messiah
Distortion
Industrial loops with a rock guitar solo over it. Some
touches of drums. A womans voice telling a bible story,
with satanic distorted male vox echoing her in the
background. Decent.
11 4:55 The Unit Circle Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net
Industrial drone loop, symphonic string sounds over
it. Nicely ominous. Lots of storm sounds in the middle. A
windy, echoy finish, with an oddly happy ambient techno kind
of feel to it.
12 4:26 Thad Donovan Dogma
Noise loop-- then kicks into Industrial Dance. Lightens up
a bit with guitar sounds, then some basic NINish distorted
vox. " 'Do it my way', they say/I say, make it yours."
Decent.
13 5:14 Corpses Last The Whales and Dolphins
Contact Half-Served
Really nice rhytmic cut up of little blips of voice samples and noises.
14 2:51 Brotherhood of The Star-Spangled Banner
Locomotive Engineers
Industrial Prog. Much like the Jimi Hendrix version, except not creative.
DISK II: BODY
1 2:16 Insult gee
Fast (too fast to dance?) industrial with lots of samples
from The Prisoner: "You tell me one thing, what was in your
mind?" cool.
2 4:28 Speakeasy One of Woody's Women
Fast bouncy (almost like 80s synth pop) with male and female
spoken vox overlayed.
3 4:32 dresden detraction
Nice toe tapping dance music with somewhat 105ish
sounding lyrics. Definite 80s synth influence.
4 10:00 Scott A. Lukas Revolution in My Mind
Nicely murky slow industrial dance, but it's too long for what it is.
5 2:34 Soma Holiday Burning Chrome
nice competent midtempo stuff. distorted vox isn't quite convincing.
6 6:20 Surgery Tomorrow Shit All Over You
slowish, deep, heavily fuzzed up/reverbed, occassional vox
samples piercing the buzzing murk. nifty.
7 4:33 Users of the Wicked You Shall All Decay (Heroin in a Dress)
Gravity
slow. heavy guitar sound, multiple male vox... kind of
rockish industrial
8 4:02 Slur Singular
cool fast moving stuff. tough & angry.
9 4:21 SNOG Born to Be Mild
mid tempo, 80s influence again. Low accented male vox. okay.
10 4:24 Smothered Hope Bloodletting
tinny laughing samples over a midtempo beat... distorted vox
comes in. Okay.
11 3:58 mary on trial success
Slower, spacey but spooky sound. Some distant male vox,
sometimes distorted. Pretty decent.
12 4:07 BlackMan Solace
lead 80s synth riff, slow spoken male vox, heavily fuzzed
up, not bad alternates with. undistorted 105ish vox. Very
slow beat.
13 3:27 Six Sigma Killer Bees
Fast. Quirky lead, 80s 105ish sound. String like synth
melody.
14 6:02 Naram Sin Nighthammer
Really interesting noises on this one. Pretty fast beat.
Really harsh screaming vox. All right.
15 3:55 Who Mournes Holiday
Mid-tempo beat, some touches of cheese synth, but not too
much. Slow almost spoken distorted vox. Lyrics sound
interesting. Decent.
16 3:53 Acme Disco Machines Piss Christ
Fastish. Fast distorted whispery vox. Basic, but not bad.
17 3:02 The Evolution Control The Industrial Polka
Committee
Lead with german, bunch of random silly samples. Pretty
funny. British style comedy vox, carnival/night club sound,
lyrics appear to be *about* industrial music. Mega Cool.
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