Re: (idm) synaesthesia

From Sharon Maher
Sent Tue, Aug 31st 1999, 17:54


Andrew Duke wrote:

> Irene:  Leeb was in the first version of skinny
> puppy, then left after the material later released
> on the brap(s) was recorded (ie. before the bites
> album came out).

I think you are refering to Remission, which was the first Skinny Puppy
release. Leeb was involved with SP only on a very marginal level.

> he then went on to form
> frontline assembly with rhs fulber.

Actually Leeb first started Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, and
then later paired up with Rhys Fulber. Incidentally, the quality of music
produced by this act when Fulber got involved shot up around 300%. He's
also no longer working with Bill Leeb (which is why the quality of music
has recently decreased 300%).

> the #1 thing you can say about FA is that they
> are *extremely* prolific. they've recorded
> a lot of material and under a lot of different
> names. while some people can be prolific
> and be spot-on most of the time, their
> prolificness (just woke up so forgive me! :))
> has dragged down their quality control,
> methinks.

Its the damn truth with these guys.

> one of the names they use
> is delerium, which has involved sarah
> mclachlan (she used to live here in halifax
> till she was 17 and i think i just bastardized
> the spelling of her name!) on vocals in
> the past and present,

The last Delerium album, Karma, featured Sarah McLachlan on vocals for one
track. The best Delerium material, however, is the old stuff. Albums like
Morpheus, Spiritual Archives, etc are classic ambient.

> they've also recorded
> a lot of industrial-dance, dark ambient,
> Enigma-ish material, etc, etc. it's funny
> because with so many different names,
> some of their poppy stuff gets on
> commercial radio, whereas stuff like
> the agressive frontline assembly never
> does get even close.

Well, the last Delerium album has made it on to commerical radio very
marginally but none of Leeb's other projects ever have or ever will.

Memo to Synaesthesia fan: If you like Synaesthesia, check out Intermix
"Future Primitives" or old Delerium. Those are the only things worth
touching.