INTELLIGENT DANCE MUSIC TIMES VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2
"Mmmmm, floor pie."
Feed Your Head
Planet Dog Records BARK CD 002
7:41 Astralasia: Twilight Whirl
6:25 The Drum Club: Furry Meadows (Dogstar Mix)
7:54 Eat Static: Kothluwalawa
7:10 Banco De Gaia: Qurna (Haj Ali's Birthday Mix)
6:22 Pressure Of Speech: Surveillance
4:16 Optic Eye: Blue Dreamers
9:31 The Knights Of The Occasional Table: Rain
7:58 Tuu: One Thousand Years
5:32 System 7: Habibi (The Camel Mix)
4:06 Nodens Ictus: PlurIngrium
7:05 The Ullulators: "...And Hardly Any Ears!"
*SPLORK* "Hey Jim, what was that sound?" "Oh, that was probably just
Drukman going orgasmic over this new `Feed Your Head' compilation on
Planet Dog records." "Oh, you mean that excellent little nugget with
74 minutes and 9 seconds of some of the most unbelievable ambient
trance and chill out music ever to come down the pike?" "You got it."
"Yeah, I really like that Eat Static track - 8 minutes of throbbing
electronics." "Yeah, and the Banco De Gaia track is a real treat for
those waiting for more of their patented Middle Eastern-flavored
trance." "Absolutely. One thing I like about this comp that others
should pick up on is the mini-bio of each band in the jewel booklet."
"True - how else would I have known that Eat Static, Nodens Ictus and
the Ullulators are all Ozric Tentacles spin-offs?" "Hey, looks like
Drukman's recovered." "Quick, let's get out of here before he
realizes we've written the review for him!" "I bet we won't get paid,
either."
No BPMs listed for this one because while some tracks do indeed have
repetitive drum machine beats, you'd have to bend the definition of
"dance music" quite a bit to work these babies into a set. This is
definitely Head Food of the highest order. All I can say (yet again)
is wow. Fucking wow. According to the booklet, this disc was
"digitally mastered for optimum listening between the hours of 3 and 8
AM. Try it and see!" And it promises future discs in the series...
YES!
Techno Rave Party 2
Automat 50312
120 3:54 Aly-Us: Follow Me
123 3:53 Chez Damier: Can You Feel It (derrick may new york dub)
131 4:15 69: My Machines
128 3:45 D-Tune: Puntaq (in your face)
129 3:49 Aquastep: Oempa Loempa
128 4:14 Chiquita: Cavity (marcello and eric mix)
131 3:41 Soup: Paris Chicago
132 3:43 Overnite II: Reachin' Out
128 4:17 Phenomania: Rave-O-Lution
130 3:55 High Lonesome Sound System: Waiting For The Lights (thai mix)
143 4:49 Ramin Vol 2: Brainticket
130 4:45 Zero Gravity: Sensorium
135 3:07 Leo Anibaldi: Raiders Of The Future
144 3:36 3 Phase & Dr Motte: Der Klang Der Familie
145 4:15 Tracid Posse: Vivarium
144 3:41 Disintegrator: Dark Black Ominous Clouds
141 3:24 Mike Dunn: Magic Feet (edge of motion mix)
137 3:40 Vein Melter: Hypnotized
127 3:59 Ron Trent: Altered States
124 3:52 Robert Armani: Circus Bells
133 4:22 Ghetto Brothers: Bass Manouevres
141 3:56 Vainqueur: Lyot (maurizio mix)
133 4:05 Brothers From Another Planet: Planet Earth
129 4:02 Mike Deaborn: Destruction
135 3:20 Edge Of Motion: La Orilla
133 3:50 The Traveler II: Tribal Journey
136 4:11 The Nighttripper: Tone Exploitation
148 3:22 Wink: Tribal Current
130 3:58 Loners In A World Of Crazyness: Drifting (the 303 drift mix)
130 4:18 Sound Mechanix: Terror On Flight 909
124 3:59 Spreadheads: Mutant Planet (uptown mix)
126 3:46 Blake Baxter: Laser 101
128 4:20 Paradise 3001: Hormizon
128 4:47 House Hallucination: Prisoners Of Ecstasy (trance mix)
132 3:28 I: A Friend Of Mine Is A Beta Tester
130 3:26 Jim Clarke: Qualification (round 4)
121 3:34 DJ Pierre: Musik (the siren mix)
130 4:05 Maurizio: Eleye
125 3:33 The Ultraviolet Catastrophe: The Trip
131 4:06 Paradise 3001: Trip-A-Nova
From the sublime to the ridiculous... Well, sort of. This is a
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Seefeel: Quique
Too Pure PURE CD 28
121 8:23 Climactic Phase #3
71 6:22 Polyfusion
120 6:38 Industrious
6:37 Imperial
130 7:40 Plainsong
106 7:25 Charlotte's Mouth
104 5:46 Through You
66 8:45 Filter Dub
5:47 Signals
The Further Adventures Of Seefeel: the indie guitar band that has been
adopted by the dance community and the only group to date to survive a
remix by the Aphex Twin with the original melody and words more or
less intact! For those that missed the First Installment (lovingly
chronicled in IDM Times 1.8), Seefeel started out trying to be an
indie guitar band but somewhere along the line they decided to become
crazed sound innovators, sampling their guitars, looping them and
turning their rhythm sections into techno-dub experiences. Quique
continues where Pure Impure left off - more spacy flights through
heavily processed guitar territory, Jah Wobble-esque bass playing,
electronic rhythms, and the occasional addition of Sarah Peacock's
beautiful voice, looped into infinity or processed into a wash of
sound. This a great album of stoned, trancy, etherial vibes. See and
feel it for yourself.
Orb: Live 93
Island CIDD 8022 (UK)
11:52 Plateau
11:58 O.O.B.E.
10:55 Little Fluffy Clouds
9:59 Star 6 & 7 8 9
12:33 Towers Of Dub
14:58 Blue Room
10:07 Valley
9:00 Perpetual Dawn
11:48 Assassin
9:06 Outlands
10:40 Spanish Castles In Space
18:52 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre
Of The Ultraworld (Loving U)
I know the Orb were bogged down in legal battles and that this 2-disc
live set is supposed to be The Final Chapter of the "Adventures" and
"UFOrb" stories, but it's still a bit worrisome that a band that
supposedly has two or three albums worth of material ready to go has
to release yet another live disc rehashing their old material, with
only two new songs for fanatics. On the plus side, one of the new
songs, "Plateau", is quite fantastic. On the minus side, practically
everything else. Sound quality is surprisingly dodgy (I say
surprisingly because their previous live disc "Patterns & Textures"
sounded fine). The mixes aren't really all that different or exciting
in any way. At least on P&T you had the occasional Steve Hillage
guitar lick to liven up the proceedings. Here the philosophy seems to
be "play the original track and occasionally hit the echo button".
The live percussionist & bassist are woefully under-utilized.
Well, before this turns into an avalanche of criticism, let me say
that despite all this, I still find this set enjoyable to put on in
the background. It definitely showcases the ambient side of The Orb
more than the dancefloor side (hence lack of BPM listings above) and
as such it makes pleasant filler. But why do we need a 2-disc set of
"pleasant filler" from one of the supreme head trip bands of our era?
For completists only.