From Solenoid Sent Fri, Aug 21st 1998, 02:29
From Solenoid Sent Fri, Aug 21st 1998, 02:29
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Che wrote:
> Global Communication - Blood Music:Pentamerous Metamorphosis {remix of
> Chapterhouse's Blood Music} (Dedicated) - 60 minutes of some of the best
> ambience ever. Loosely based on Chapterhouse's Blood Music album, I've
> never heard the original, so I can't say ow much of it remains. My guess
> is, not much. Alpha Phase begins with burbling synths & big chords, then
> percussion, slowly building, until the main theme is stated, after which
> the kick kicks, lasers zap, and it continues to build, until dropping away
> to leave the main theme. Then a variation on the theme develops, and
> everything builds to resolution. 16 1/2 minutes. Next comes C3P0 at the
> beginning of Beta Phase, then 5 minutes of swirly ambience (no beats)
> until a bassline announces a different mood for the last 6 minutes. Jus'
> lubberly. Then a whoosh, a drone, the beginnings of a beat, then it drops
> out for a subtley wahhed guitar, a melody, percussion building in
> complexity, another melody, everything building until it's just groovin'.
> Then the beat is gone and the last minute and a half is just the wah
> guitar & drone, making Gamma Phase a very satisfying 11 3/4 minutes. Delta
> Phase features a staccato synth pulse, a simple guitar riff, a solid
> bassline, and etheric washes of breathy & chimey synths. Then some really
> fabulous piano work. I know of no other extended solo like this in the
> GlobComm opus, ok, there is one, in the Natural High remix, and that's
> genius too. It's a shame it ends so abruptly, leaving just the pulse to
> fade to black at 10 3/4 minutes. Finally, Epsilon phase is 11 1/4 minutes
> of slow pulsing beats with synth chorus and some singing, by Chapterhouse
> I suppose, but I can't understand a single word, and it melds with the
> music, so I can deal with it. It just wraps up things perfectly. If you
> don't own this, I'm truly sorry for you, you're missing out on 60 minutes
> of great music.
Could this "Blood Music" be of any reference to the excellent Greg Bear
sci-fi novel "Blood Music" that came out just a couple years before?
Clearly, these guys read sci-fi, that is why I wonder....
the "phases" might refer to the stages of the takeover of the new
humanity-organism in the novel...
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