quoted 5 lines I remembered some discussion a few months ago about the new Scorn album,> I remembered some discussion a few months ago about the new Scorn album,
> which I thought was titled _Dub_. Anyway, I was browsing my local
> BlockBuster Music (high prices, but you occasionally can find something
> out there) and stumbled on _Colossus_, recorded from 1992-93 and released
> by Earache USA in 1994.
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quoted 4 lines Anyway, if anyone out there sees this disc, take the time to listen to it> Anyway, if anyone out there sees this disc, take the time to listen to it
> if you can. It's not bad. And if anyone knows what album by Scorn I'm
> thinking about that *was* kind of dubby (in that Earache sort of way),
> drop me a line.
Gee, didn't we talk about this back last July, Dave? (-:
Anyway, you're thinking of "Evanescence" - the one with "redefining Ambient
Dub" on the sticker. Funnily enough, I just heard most of it last weekend.
My wife went and promised an old friend (and Industrialist-Without-A-Clue as
of yet, alas) that she'd play at his birthday party, so I had to miss the
Dust Brothers for that )-: (Sigh. Women. Ya can't ... oh, never mind.)
To be honest, I don't know where the "redefining Ambient Dub" comes from.
It's not Ambient by any stretch of the imagination. There's plenty of Dub
influence, though. If you're an Old Fart(tm), let me put it this way: the
album "Evanescence" most reminds me of is Public Image Ltd's "Metal Box"
(a.k.a. "Second Edition"). Not so much the music but the *feel* of the album:
it has that bass-heavy bass-up-front claustrophobic Dub feel to it, which
reminded me of "Metal Box". In other words, it's totally fuckin' cool (-:
(What this has to do with IDM, I dunno. We resume our regularly scheduled
mu-Ziq track list trainspotting ... (-: )
OnNow: nothing (no CD player at work)
OnLast: Vibbert/Simmons "Weirs" (Geez, some of this rages but most of it sucks)
- Greg