Post by DacharAND ONE, TERMINAL CHOICE,
IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, STERIL,
DAVANTAGE, PORTION CONTROL,
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, TOPGUN
and more
I didn't see the FLA review, unless you're talking about the reference in
one review to a remix by Rhys Fulber . . . .
Post by DacharATTRITION
CAUSTIC
fix8:sed8
I notice in your archives you don't have any Nitzer Ebb reviews?
And then there's Electro Assassin. I have the impression that they were
in part from Portion Control, or were part of Portion Control, and that
there's some relationship with Solar Enemy as well, all of this probably
gotten or inferred from the old Digital Underground catalogs, which I miss
greatly-- I'd marvel over each one for days: "Chill? dark-wave?
death-folk? WTF?" etc.
This block off their second release
Electro Assassin/ Bioculture (1994) (Pendragon/Metropolis)/ "Haywire",
"Heavy Unit", "Ultrafear", "F-Zero" and "Terminal Choice" (29:53)
is addictive. "Haywire", "Heavy Unit" and "Terminal Choice" are excellent
(in spite of the silly intro to the first). Raw. Good voice and throb,
both reminiscent of _Front by Front_, but more rocklike overall (ie, power
chording). Excellent noise on "Haywire" and "Terminal Choice", too.
Lyrics the all-too-usual gothic/sci-fi mix.
And this block off their third and apparently final release (which was on
clearance sale at Metropolis last week)
Electro Assassin/ The Divine Invasion (1995) (Cyber-Tec/SPV/Synthetic
Symphony)/ "Bodyhammer", "Voyager", "Dreamweb" and "Beyond Salvation"
(26:35)
is magnificent. Polished, dense, powerful, beautiful. A huge leap
even from _Bioculture_. In order, funky; spacy (lyrically and musically);
funky and spacy; and hang on to yer hat. Lots of rhythms *here*. And the
album positively crawls with lush spacey instrumentals.
_TDI_ according to the insert was _supposed_ to be the first of three
CDs comprising the "Demon Seed Trilogy", which was apparently aborted.
--
Let there be throbbing.