The Techno Animal album 'Re-Entry' is great a great
dub/ambient/techno/avant hybrid that stunned me when I first heard it.
I write reviews for a local street mag called The Scene (by the way
Geoff if you're from Brisbane - QUT? - lemme know). Here's the review I
wrote of this CD (please excuse the purple prose - I'd been reading a
few too many Wire Mags at the time!):
Techno Animal
Re Entry
[Virgin/Larrikan]
Dont be fooled - this is not Techno in any sense of that word other
than that of pure technology. This is the sound of technology twisted,
rusted and dirty, and crushed by the side of an industrial wasteland -
left to rot with its innards festering - breeding a brew, brewing a
brood... This is the sound of King Tubbys horror nightmare of what his
experiments in Kingston, Jamaica might unleash upon the world. And he
can see the terror-virus he has created infecting the machines. And the
machines are making music which crushes the brain - straight to the
pleasure centre, straight to the soul, straight to the heart - then
nothingness. And that nothingness contains all music and no music...If
Sabres of Paradise truly are the future of dance, Techno Animal are the
future of everything! And like all the great innovators, to traverse
their music is not an easy passage. The disorientation and ecstacy they
evoke is like that engendered in their time by Schoenberg, Cage,
Stockhausen, and Coltrane. But like those times, this is a difficult
time - and to face up to it we need to look past the personal problems
of Vedder and co, past the retro-isms of Oasis and the whole Brit-pop
milieu - right into the face of the problem. And its ugly but
beautiful, because its our destiny. And it sounds something like Re
Entry - ugly but beautiful, dislocating but familiar. Music for the new
age - ready or not.
quoted 4 lines Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:11:34 +0000
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>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:11:34 +0000
>From: Geoffrey Elgey <elgey@fit.qut.edu.au>
>Subject: (idm) Techno Animal (was: Experimental Audio Research)
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quoted 1 line Forgive my ignorance, but I saw a double CD in the 'hardcore' section of >my
>Forgive my ignorance, but I saw a double CD in the 'hardcore' section of >my local rekkid store the other day. It was called 'Re-entry' by a group >called 'Techno Animal', and supposedly features a member of EAR. All the >choons were fairly longish. I don't know if it is ambient or IDM or >hardcore, but has anyone heard of this, and can tell me what it's like >(as I couldn't see said CD yesterday)? quoted 2 lines Cheers,
>Cheers,
>Geoff
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