From C Twomey Sent Fri, Sep 11th 1998, 05:27
From C Twomey Sent Fri, Sep 11th 1998, 05:27
This is a late 90's tribute, of a sort, to the KLF's Chill Out album from the start of the decade. This release by the Austrian label, Sabotage, which has one foot in the new experimental electronic area and another in the DJ scene, brings a new hard edge to the idea of 'ambience', evidenced by their parody of the tranquil cover image of the original, which replaces the meadow's lounging sheep with wolves! The cd begins quietly enough, with the industrial-ambient loops and drones of Germany's Airlock, but soon hits its stride with the noise and machine rhythms of producers like Japan's Aube, Austria's Farmers Manual and Canada's David Reeves (who as Otraslab runs a c&w song through a ring modulator). Germany's over-the-top junglist Panacea takes an in-yer-face gabba direction with his KLF-sampling track "Demolition Desaster", which also takes a detour into bits of Extreme Noise Terror's grindcore cover of the chart topping "3AM Eternal". Actually the project has more to do with wolves than the kopyright liberation front, as Sabotage urges you to adopt one in the name of conservation. Their's is called Nimrod... (http://www.teleport.com/~wnorton/namers.html)