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"Yes" puts a buzzing analogue synth riff over a tight motorik rhythm,but most tracks slow things down, allowing Johannes's cool and noodlinglead guitar work to take precedence. "Exalarm" reiterates the Krautrockinfluence. For an alternative rock group they're more than usuallysonically liberal: a vaguely musique concrete aesthetic comes throughin the choice of the samples that are scattered about, and there's anod to cinema soundtracking in the piano-led "The Creak". It's quite avaried set and a very promising debut.
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- Vidna Obmana - III (reprise)
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Those uncomfortable with the possibility that they're hearing "curated"generative work will be disappointed with the title track—but to ignorethis release would mean missing out on two much more traditional,structured tracks which will certainly appeal to fans of their earlierreleases. The high-speed "Dial." beats out constantly evasive drumpatterns, with myriad pads bleeping their way through their own equallybewildering sequences. A segue into "Cap.IV", and we're treated to morechunky percussive wizardry and a trademark Ae chord progression whichcontests, towards the track's end, with unintelligibly fast sequenceblurs. Fans will be happy.
Warp pulled out the stops by issuing a special version of the EPcontaining both the music CD, and a DVD, for approximately twice theprice of the CD. (Thankfully they opted to package it in a double-depthjewel case rather than in oversized DVD packaging.)
Alexander Rutterford's video for "Gantz_graf" synchronizes thehigh-speed mutations of an abstract, jagged, and, well, futuristic CGIobject with the music of the titular track. Very impressive. There'salso a slide show from the video—a nice addition since the images flashby so quickly. Chris Cunningham's famous "Second Bad Vilbel" video wasan early taste of the robotic imagery exploited in Bjork's "All Is FullOf Love", with an insectoid robot cavorting about in menacing fashion,seen through security camera visuals. It's had a nice facelift that hasadded more musical synchronization, and has got rid of the dodgy aliencreature which spoiled the original. The "Basscadet" video, which Ihadn't seen before, hasn't stood the test of time as well asCunningham's, using as it does the same CGI technology as all thosepo-faced X-Mix collections full of bad ambient techno videos thateveryone seemed to be buying in the early to mid nineties. It's not badgiven all that, and certainly avoids the hippy rubbish seen in mostvideos of that era.
In sum, no-one would be well advised to rush out to buy a DVD playerfor this, but if you have access to one, it's worthwhile—especially ifyou haven't seen Cunningham's excellent video before.
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Some of these lengthy pieces also unsurprisingly serves as an excellentprecursor to much of the non-new age drone music created by some of thevarious members involved. Jackman is joined by members of The NewBlockaders for the super-abrasive "Valley of Worms" from 'In Extremis',whose tracks straddle both releases while Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora,solo) teamed up with Jackman for the recording of the tame, hauntinglysubtle, yet no less intense "Horii" (on Volume Two). Appropriatelyconcluding the two-disc set is "Ich Reiste Weil,..." which, althoughfrom 1989, uses a number of similar elements as the earlierL.A.Y.L.A.H. recordings. The artwork is untampered from the 2000releases of these discs, however, at a basic black, none of theoriginal artwork from the 1980s remains, but hey, they're not going for$18 any more! Once again, however, these releases are limited, withoutany assurance of a re-press. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Spiritualized mastermind Jason "Spaceman" Pierce was all too public about firing essentially all of his bandmates after the tour that produced the Live at Albert Hall album (he wisely kept Coil co-conspirator Thighpaulsandra, though). However, instead of letting it get them down too much, the crew struck back and reformed under the moniker of Lupine Howl. "Vaporizer," the latest single from their Carnivorous Lunar Activities album sounds more like a forced attempt to recreate the Britpop funk of Shaun Ryder's Black Grape than the beautiful noise of Spiritualized.Vinyl Hiss
While a bit too reminiscent of Ryder's kidney-swapping-for-crack anthem for my tastes, the single stays in your head just long enough to stick. Massive Attack's own 3D remixes the track without changing the flow of it all that much, which is disappointing considering the potential it could have had. The b-side "You Get Inside Me" is a muddy little hunk of garage band glitz, swapping cleaner atmospheric verses with dirgey choruses. I can't imagine myself listening to this single nearly as much as their cinematic work in Spiritualized, but they do deserve credit for not just trying to imitate Pierce's bizarre and unique vision. Rather than allowing themselves to fade into obscurity, Lupine Howl has settled for something a little better than mediocrity.
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This nearly one hour-long compilation offers a wide range of musicalstyles: CG + Dodo Band offer nearly cabaret like jazz, CG + de R:IPdrop the cabaret part, CG + Dull Schicksal dive with "Singalong Song"into the guitar pop realms of the early Monochrome Set, CG + Wim Oudik(ex- Trespasser W.) and CG + Frank van den Bos (still- Trespassers W.)tend to jump into altered chansons, CG + Luc Houtkamp do a nearlyspoken word piece originally recorded for a radio show, CG + AlainNeffe (Insane Music, Belgium) get a little bit creepy, not very faraway from The Legendary Pink Dots, and the final piece "Gemobiliseerd"with Moebius & Haks & De Joode is a live excerpt that evolvesnearly into a dancefloor track, with contra bass set against akeyboarder and drum programmer.
More Contributors are involved but I guess I'll stop for now andrecommend this release to anyone who likes true alternative music waybeyond any marketing targets and stylistic limitations. Get hold of itif you can.
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- Tears of the Dodo (with the Dodo Band)