quoted 3 lines Scorn recommendations
>Scorn recommendations
>
>Can anyone recommend me some Scorn albums?
Yes, I'm something of a Mick Harris/Nick Bullen nut :-) Release dates
are approx.
quoted 1 line Are any of these albums worth the money:
>Are any of these albums worth the money:
Lick Forever Dog
Colossus
White Irises Blind
LFD and WIB are only EP's. LFD is from 91 and is pretty heavy, nowhere
near IDM. Industrial dub, perhaps. There are a couple of cool mixes on
there, but I'd leave it till later. LFD is lifted from their first
album Vae Solis, which is really good but more guitar-bass-drums
orientated. Justin Broadrick (Techno Animal/Ice/Godflesh/Final etc)
played guitar on VS and LFD.
Colossus is from 92 and is somewhere in between their metal roots and
their full fledged ambient dub material. It's pretty good, although WIB
is the standout track and is quite brilliant. So perhaps it would be
better to get the EP first to see if you like that sound or not. The
mixes on the EP are OK but nothing special.
Evanescence
Silver Rain Fell
Evanescence (95), along with Ellipsis (I presume you've already got that
seeing you didn't mention it) are Scorn's two best, IMHO. Evanescence
is where all but one of the tracks on Ellipsis came from. Get it now,
it is EXCELLENT. It is very dub orientated. The only track on Ellipsis
that isn't radically altered is Silver Rain Fell, which just has the
vocals taken out and is made a bit more dancable. The Silver Rain Fell
12" doesn't have anything on it that isn't on El. or Ev. It's quite hard
to describe... wicked live bass and programming with HEAVILY treated
guitar and vocals. Regarded by many as one of the best ambient dub
albums ever. I agree.
Gyral (95)
Leave It Out (96)
Zander (97)
Nick Bullen left after Ellipsis. Brilliant bassist, vocalist and
songwriter, but he also had an alcohol addiction and a violent
personality and ended up in jail for a year after glassing someone. He
is now a baker. So these albums are just Mick Harris. These are very
minimal and completely electronic (No live bass, or vocals or
anything). Gyral is the best of these 3. Leave it out is OK, but you
can get these tracks on a 2cd compilation called Sonics Everywhere. SE
is all the 12"'s released on MH's label Possible and there's some other
good stuff on there like PCM, who did the awesome The End remix on
Ellipsis. Zander is very minimal and if choosing from these 3 Gyral
would be the best starting point.
I love all Scorn stuff, but apart from Ellipsis/Evanescence, it's not
that accessible, so it's hard to know what to recommend. If you end up
digging his stuff, you might want to check out: (For starters, he's got
about 1000 side projects)
Lull (MH's beatless ambient thing)
Nick Bullen/Bill Laswell: Bass Terror (Damn fine CD)
Ice/T-A: Ice's Bad Blood and T-A's Re-Entry are both brilliant and are
the work of J. Broadrick, K.Martin, and others. They don't sound much
like Scorn but most Scorn fans dig them.
Painkiller: MH, Laswell and Zorn doing bizzare and usually very heavy
impro jazz.
If you're feeling particularly adventurous, check out the classic Naplam
Death album Scum that features MH, J.Broadrick and Nick Bullen. :-)
The dub terrorsit pages also have heaps of info on him and his work.
http://dubterrorist.hyperreal.org/
Hope this helps,
Tintin