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BIOMECHANOID |
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ATMOSPHERES AND MELODIES INSPIRED BY THE Ultimate Transmissions UTCD 003
62'34"
CD £8.00 + p&p 1. Landscapes
1-3 7'10"
Composed,
produced & engineered by Biomechanoid. Biomechanoid (Alan & Steve Freeman): synths,
keys, guitars, loops, samples, electroacoustic collage. notes... Originally an Alto Stratus
idea, the Biomechanoid project became something different. A concept based on
the paintings of H.R. Giger, it resulted in vast tapestries of sound, meshed
with electronics and soundscaping, a special island unto itself. From the
early rehearsals through to mix-down it took over a year to complete. A great
deal of preparation and invention went in to montaging sounds, fusing
analogue and digital textures, with mechanical and organic properties, into a
music of melody, dissonance, rhythm and form. Truly biomechanical music! The
results are often unnerving, with an underlying elusive beauty. As one of
Auricle Cassettes best sellers it was a prime choice for CD reissue.
Digitally transferred by Colin Potter, and cleaned-up really nicely, with a
bonus track, this now comes across as so surreal, cosmic and strange! At around the time we decided to reissue this on CD, new
work had been started on other projects, including Endgame (an
improvising cosmic avant-garde trio), the conceptual Newt Hounds,
alongside other experimentation at our new Tachyon studio. Some of these new
works (were planned to) have resulted in the possibility of a new "much
weirder" Biomechanoid entitled "Visions Of The Necronomicon"
however it became the guts of a new Alto Stratus
called "Catharsis". A new Biomechanoid piece is featured on the
various artists release "Dronsz". See press release review... The "Atmospheres' album is easily the most
accessible of the three to someone who hasn't been around the musical block
for that long, but even here the music is once more firmly on the dark side,
as you might expect bearing in mind the concept behind it. Here, across
twelve tracks, you get a much greater range of dynamics, textures, sounds and
layers presented in more digestible chunks, although the combination of
synths, tape effects, devices, keyboards, electric guitar and more, often
made me think of the music of Brain-era Cluster, only not as obvious
and more cosmic on the whole, but a music with whose heart and soul this
album shares, and possibly just as innovative, certainly capable of sounding
as good in thirty years time as the 'Cluster 2' album does today. With
plenty of spooky ice flow passages of electronics allied to some, it has to
be said, quite beautiful yet eerily stark soundscapes, particularly the mix
of tonal colours on track two that had me going through Frippertronics and
Tangerine Dream only much more of an edge and heavier. Yes, there are
also rhythms in this music, as well as melodies, or what they regard as
melodies anyway, and that's pretty good. Overall, for electronic music fans
who want something with an undoubted seventies influence, plenty happening,
magical assortments of layers and textures, never boring, and really unlike
most of what came out of that era, then this is one gem of an album. [By Andy
G, in C&D Services catalogue] samples... Originally a cassette (various editions) - quantity unknown -
released ?/4/1986. |
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