Coll: Mind and Body Label: Atomic Novelties A double disk compilation with one disk each to represent both sides of the industrial world: ambient and dance (hence "Mind and Body"). I like the Mind disk a lot. The Body disk isn't bad, but too much of it has an 80s synth pop feel. This, incidentally, is the first collection of work by people who hang out on the usenet newsgroup rec.music.industrial: "Local" music from a virtual space. Highlights: DISK I: MIND I(2) 4:12 Urban Ambience Drug Dilemma blips, noises, jazzy licks, murky mangled vox samples "war on drugs" and so on. Industrial-jazz that starts sparse and then fills in and gets very cool. I(4) 9:57 D.A.C. Crowell The Fall of Shartoa Begins with basic ambient techno sound, but quickly fills in to a really interesting spacey, ominous industrial ambient piece. Lots of high organesque notes attacking, over a bed of deep bass industrial drones and throbs. This gets increasingly noisy and intense. Excellent. I(6) 4:51 Trance Vicious Circle Nice slow murky stuff, with a *slightly* distorted whispery vox thing going, occasional outbursts of noise. Very cool. I(11) 4:55 The Unit Circle Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net Industrial drone loop, symphonic string sounds over it. Nicely ominous. Lots of storm sounds in the middle. A windy, echoy finish, with an oddly happy ambient techno kind of feel to it. I(13) 5:14 Corpses Last The Whales and Dolphins Contact Half-Served Really nice rhytmic cut up of little blips of voice samples and noises. DISK II: BODY II(1) 2:16 Insult gee Fast (too fast to dance?) industrial with lots of samples from The Prisoner: "You tell me one thing, what was in your mind?" cool. II(6) 6:20 Surgery Tomorrow Shit All Over You slowish, deep, heavily fuzzed up/reverbed, occassional vox samples piercing the buzzing murk. nifty. II(8) 4:02 Slur Singular cool fast moving stuff. tough & angry. II(17) 3:02 The Evolution Control The Industrial Polka Committee Lead with german, bunch of random silly samples. Pretty funny. British style comedy vox, carnival/night club sound, lyrics appear to be *about* industrial music. Mega Cool. Here's the BODY breakdown (that's DISK II): 80's sound: 2 3 9 12 13 Fast: _1_ 2 3 _8_ 13 14 16 Mid: 5 9 10 15 _17_ Slow: 4 _6_ 7 11 12 ---- The whole disk, track by track: DISK I: MIND 1 4:07 grae.com New Age Love Song Alternate voice samples and noise... ends with interesting almost religious/choral music. 2 4:12 Urban Ambience Drug Dilemma blips, noises, jazzy licks, murky mangled vox samples "war on drugs" and so on. Industrial-jazz that starts sparse and then fills in and gets very cool. 3 5:36 KILLED by a BLOW mysteries of in the HEAD pakistan (for phil) Pseudo-Indian music, with distorted (and or low fi) spoken vox. Listenable, but probably kinda dumb. 4 9:57 D.A.C. Crowell The Fall of Shartoa Begins with basic ambient techno sound, but quickly fills in to a really interesting spacey, ominous industrial ambient piece. Lots of high organesque notes attacking, over a bed of deep bass industrial drones and throbs. This gets increasingly noisy and intense. Excellent. 5 8:11 Macronympha Masturbation Mantra Spoken vox and slow throbbing beat distorted in a very annoying staticy way, but it does get a bit better. A woman babbling about the importance of masturbation, probably from some silly talk show. Not bad, but a bit long for what it is. 6 4:51 Trance Vicious Circle Nice slow murky stuff, with a *slightly* distorted whispery vox thing going, occasional outbursts of noise. Very cool. 7 2:23 Crazy Ivan My Ass Is Ivory Growling voice, electronic buzzing, mouth noises like horse clip-clops. Okay in a weird way, not exciting. 8 3:52 John Grigsby Sequence Kind of spooky attacks of electronic sounds, like early analog synth music. Okay. 9 11:13 John Eichenseer Down at the Blue Cafe Begins with some fairly quiet rumbling. Spoken vox like jazz rapping "Come in, relax" and then recites some of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire". It sounds like you're in some sleazy bar or cabaret... A voice comes in introducing you to "the blue cafe", and then starts babbling about how the "moon is a genius"... in general this is lots of odd cut up jazzy/bluesy sounds, with occasional industrial noises, and spoken pieces with a theatrical sound like say the Firesign Theater or Frank Zappa. 10 4:28 Total Harmonic The Messiah Distortion Industrial loops with a rock guitar solo over it. Some touches of drums. A womans voice telling a bible story, with satanic distorted male vox echoing her in the background. Decent. 11 4:55 The Unit Circle Constant Bit Select of a Vector Net Industrial drone loop, symphonic string sounds over it. Nicely ominous. Lots of storm sounds in the middle. A windy, echoy finish, with an oddly happy ambient techno kind of feel to it. 12 4:26 Thad Donovan Dogma Noise loop-- then kicks into Industrial Dance. Lightens up a bit with guitar sounds, then some basic NINish distorted vox. " 'Do it my way', they say/I say, make it yours." Decent. 13 5:14 Corpses Last The Whales and Dolphins Contact Half-Served Really nice rhytmic cut up of little blips of voice samples and noises. 14 2:51 Brotherhood of The Star-Spangled Banner Locomotive Engineers Industrial Prog. Much like the Jimi Hendrix version, except not creative. DISK II: BODY 1 2:16 Insult gee Fast (too fast to dance?) industrial with lots of samples from The Prisoner: "You tell me one thing, what was in your mind?" cool. 2 4:28 Speakeasy One of Woody's Women Fast bouncy (almost like 80s synth pop) with male and female spoken vox overlayed. 3 4:32 dresden detraction Nice toe tapping dance music with somewhat 105ish sounding lyrics. Definite 80s synth influence. 4 10:00 Scott A. Lukas Revolution in My Mind Nicely murky slow industrial dance, but it's too long for what it is. 5 2:34 Soma Holiday Burning Chrome nice competent midtempo stuff. distorted vox isn't quite convincing. 6 6:20 Surgery Tomorrow Shit All Over You slowish, deep, heavily fuzzed up/reverbed, occassional vox samples piercing the buzzing murk. nifty. 7 4:33 Users of the Wicked You Shall All Decay (Heroin in a Dress) Gravity slow. heavy guitar sound, multiple male vox... kind of rockish industrial 8 4:02 Slur Singular cool fast moving stuff. tough & angry. 9 4:21 SNOG Born to Be Mild mid tempo, 80s influence again. Low accented male vox. okay. 10 4:24 Smothered Hope Bloodletting tinny laughing samples over a midtempo beat... distorted vox comes in. Okay. 11 3:58 mary on trial success Slower, spacey but spooky sound. Some distant male vox, sometimes distorted. Pretty decent. 12 4:07 BlackMan Solace lead 80s synth riff, slow spoken male vox, heavily fuzzed up, not bad alternates with. undistorted 105ish vox. Very slow beat. 13 3:27 Six Sigma Killer Bees Fast. Quirky lead, 80s 105ish sound. String like synth melody. 14 6:02 Naram Sin Nighthammer Really interesting noises on this one. Pretty fast beat. Really harsh screaming vox. All right. 15 3:55 Who Mournes Holiday Mid-tempo beat, some touches of cheese synth, but not too much. Slow almost spoken distorted vox. Lyrics sound interesting. Decent. 16 3:53 Acme Disco Machines Piss Christ Fastish. Fast distorted whispery vox. Basic, but not bad. 17 3:02 The Evolution Control The Industrial Polka Committee Lead with german, bunch of random silly samples. Pretty funny. British style comedy vox, carnival/night club sound, lyrics appear to be *about* industrial music. Mega Cool. Blatant Indecency Warnings on: I(1)