quoted 1 line I'll bite.>I'll bite.
Mee too.
quoted 1 line I'm pleasantly surprised with Cyclobian Sunset.>I'm pleasantly surprised with Cyclobian Sunset.
I'm not. I loved the Kinesthesia 12"s to death, same with the album (though
not as much as the 12"s, wish they were on CD so I could play them while
commuting). The Cylob album was a disappointment though, because Chris
seems to have gone all poppy on us just like Mike Paradinas. I for one
really love that dark, evil music that used to come out on RePHLeX, the
stuff that combined dissonant synthi melodies layered on top of complex
distorted percussion with psychedelic, isolatioist sounds/timbres. Like
Church of Pain, with its incredible screwed up organ chords and such, wow.
Truly unique. Cylobian Sunset, by comparison, sounds like a waste of good
talent and music equipment. Chris could have really churned out some killer
stuff that made good use of his analog machines and his phenomenal
innovation/creativity, but all he ended up doing was creating yet another
cheesy pseudo electro revival album, with very predictable and disposable
melodies a la any other music in this genre. It's not bad at all, mind you,
it's actually extremely good. Very well done. He could have done something
far, far, far better though. Oh well, maybe next time. If you like this
album though and you do not have the Kinesthesia 12"s, get them. You have
no idea what you are missing.
Photek on the other hand... buy UFO/Rings Around Saturn, and try out the
latter at 33... it's amazing.