This is a late 90's tribute, of a sort, to the KLF's Chill Out album from
the start of the decade. This release by the Austrian label, Sabotage,
which has one foot in the new experimental electronic area and another in
the DJ scene, brings a new hard edge to the idea of 'ambience', evidenced
by their parody of the tranquil cover image of the original, which replaces
the meadow's lounging sheep with wolves! The cd begins quietly enough,
with the industrial-ambient loops and drones of Germany's Airlock, but soon
hits its stride with the noise and machine rhythms of producers like
Japan's Aube, Austria's Farmers Manual and Canada's David Reeves (who as
Otraslab runs a c&w song through a ring modulator). Germany's over-the-top
junglist Panacea takes an in-yer-face gabba direction with his KLF-sampling
track "Demolition Desaster", which also takes a detour into bits of Extreme
Noise Terror's grindcore cover of the chart topping "3AM Eternal". Actually
the project has more to do with wolves than the kopyright liberation front,
as Sabotage urges you to adopt one in the name of conservation. Their's is
called Nimrod... (
http://www.teleport.com/~wnorton/namers.html)