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


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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)