Industrial music reviews

The Twelve Inch Anthology is one of the best Skinny Puppy albums to date. All the remixes are well-put together, and while some clock in at over 7 minutes, you'll never get bored of them. This cd is worth buying alone for Deep Down Trauma Hounds, Assimilate, and Dig It; There aren't any "filler" tracks, and it's one album you can listen to all the way through without ever wanting to change the song. These songs and remixes are skinny puppy at their greatest element, because it blends all of the various sounds they had on different albums and mixes it into one audio assault. If you're new to Skinny Puppy, I'd suggest buying Too Dark Park first, or Last Rights; but this album is as good as any to start out with as well.

Soil and Eclipse is one of the finest examples of the modern incarnation of gothic music. With funky electronic beats and mesmerizing angellic vocals by singer James Tye, this album is on the forefront, defining the direction of the genre.

The dark chords and hip techno grooves draw the listener in with passionate lyrics. It's difficult to believe that such a unique album can come from the islands of Hawaii.

Check out the CD for yourself.

This is a somewhat strange album because you're not expecting the synthesizers to sound THAT primitive. But given a bit of time the results do stand out for themselves. It also gives us that rare thing of a Cabaret Voltaire novelty track in Do The Snake where Mallinder ( at least I think it's him - his voice sounds so different than on later records ) intoning " Gonna make you slide gonna make you shake " and " Get up...no I mean...Get down " and just a generally fun song in all. The last three tracks Venusian Animals, The Outer Limits and She Loved You are all very paranoid with Mallinder whispering on the last track " She loves you, she knows your number, she says she almost lost her mind." Also The Outer Limits has the odd sound of cash registers opening and closing on the song. Definitely a paranoid listen

This is a reincarnation of the LP "three crepescule tracks" released in the 80's. In my opinion, Cabaret Voltaire's early period recordings like this are the very best because they are slightly harsher, more disjointed, and all around more innovative and creative. The main tracks from this EP are "Sluggin Fer Jesus" parts 1 through 3. In them, a television evangelist is sampled throughout, demanding donations and raving about. Over this series of samples and loops, Cabaret Voltaire unloads some brilliant music on the listener. They use everything from distorted synths and vocoder to acoustic drums and Mallinder's bare croon. The dead on cover of The theme From "Shaft" shows how the early incarnation of this band could make anything work, it's also hilarious to hear Mallinder croon "he's a sex machine to all the chicks" through a vocoder. The remix of "Yashar" is just fantastic as well. If you like Autechre, Phoenecia, Can, or Kraftwerk, you must give this a shot. If you're new to the group I would sugguest getting "2x45" first, since it's pretty much the seminal Cabaret Voltaire album. Then get this next, then "Crackdown, then "Red Mecca"....you just might end up addicted

By the way, you can get almost everything from the early period by going to the Mute Records site.

this album is one of there finest,I reccomend it to any one is truly a digital music freak and loves industrial.

The electro/avantgarde bands Die Form provide (once again) that are a great band of our days.This album and Extremum are the best albums of Die form in my opinion.This album is a re-released of the same album at Trisol.Sado/maso,electro and avantgarde.Please buy it!

Neurosis' alter-ego records sounds of various insects, then mutates and warps the tapes into a user-friendly, interactive sound experiment.

Listeners are encouraged to remix and revamp the sounds as they see fit. To play both CDs on different sound systems at the same time. Have lots of fun with your digital sound software and this album.

As a pure listening experience, it's also very fun. One of the better ambient/noise albums I've heard. Scraping and droning and buzzing. Swirling and diving, all around our head. A good pair of headphones are a must.

Song titles: 1. (I Don't Want to Have) Easy Listening Nightmares 2. Prelude to Alice the Goon 3. (untitled track)

I actually have the 12" version so I've never heard the untitled track, but the first two (plus Stapleton's art etched into the b-side of the vinyl) are enough to make this release worth it. The first song is kind of 'poppy' and somewhat reminiscant of "The Sylvia and Babs Hi-Thigh Companion." The second track is slower and more dreamlike, with whispering voices and other bizarre Nurse With Wound trademarks. This is an interesting re-release that no NWW fan should be without.

Go here for more details: http://brainwashed.com/nww/music/ud081.html

The latest CD by Seattle's Kill Switch...Klick is a hybrid of remixes and new material. Some of the material appears in older forms on their 1st record Beat It To Fit, Paint It To Match and their 3rd CD deGENERATE. These versions are some of the best music they have yet put out.

This is really good music here. ard to describe them.. Synth-pop / ambient / industrial / with some guitar thrown in at times. If you are a fan of Psykosonik, this will definitley be a artist you'll wanna look into to. There is a hidden track at the end of track 5.

Given the fact that Seven Red Seven has never failed to keep me happy, it's very hard to be completely unbiased. I'll just stick to the nitty gritty and maybe it'll help.

This EP is an excellent mixture of rock guitar / electronic noise that grabs you by the ears and spins you around. The remixes of "Bass State Coma" are all unique to this recording. The first version is a rock/electronic mix that works very well, and gets your blood flowing. The "Think Tank" versions (mixed by ex-Information Societist Paul Robb) are somewhat trancelike and ethereal, but it's a nice counterpoint to the first version, giving it an entirely different feel without changing the intent. But the two reworkings of "Thinking of You" (one of which is hidden on the end of track 5) make this recording worth purchasing. The Sonik Pulse Mix is a mostly instrumental electronic rendition, while the hidden track is a 3:43 rock version that updates the sound of the classic track from "Shelter". It's an excellent example of how a new direction isn't necessarily a deviation from a path... it's merely a different mindset.

Buy this. I'm sure you were going to anyways.