THE DAMAGE MANUAL - LIMITED EDITION
Revenge Fiction
[2:39]3.6 Mb
No Act of Grace
[3:43]5.4 Mb
I'am War Again
[4:21]5.7 Mb
Mad Dialect
[4:48]6.8 Mb
Laugh track
[4:03]5.9 Mb
South Pole Fighters
[3:09]4.7 Mb
Quiet Life
[3:12]4.5 Mb
Driven Menace
[5:10]7.5 Mb
Limited edition
[2:31]3.7 Mb
Expand (remix by Can)
[5:58]9.3 Mb
The Damage Manual "Limited edition" Album Review
Little Damage Done, Satisfying nonetheless.
I was a bit suprised to see that Damage Manual held it together long enough to do a second full length album. It is true that this is a "Damage Manual" album, but it's not entirely the same.
It should be noted that Jah Wobble and Geordie Walker have been replaced. Chris Connelly handles some of the guitar work, but for the most part the Bass and Guitar duties fall to Steven Seibold (previously working for Information Society of all things!)
Ironically enough, Geordie Walker's absence (due to the Killing Joke reunion) does not prevent some parts of the record from sounding like Killing Joke's lighter songs, which inadvertantly makes it sound like they could be demos from the "Murder Inc." era. This isn't a bad thing.
All in all, Connelly, Martin Atkins and Seibold hold it together well. It's a likeable album although less adventurous than the "1" EP and the Self Titled album. If the Connelly/David Bowie comparisons hold accurate, it is reasonable to assume that Damage Manual is his "Tin Machine".
Video The Damage Manual: Laugh Track
This is a little-seen official video for The Damage Manual's "Laugh Track" off of 2005's Limited Edition. The Damage Manual is an industrial supergroup featuring Martin Atkins (Pigface, NIN, Ministry, Killing Joke, PiL), Geordie Walker (Killing Joke), Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks), and Jah Wobble (PiL). Two full length albums have been issued on Atkins' Invisible and Underground Inc. label.
ALEXANDER HACKE - SANCTUARY
Minnie and Me
[1:44]2.4 Mb
Sister
[3:02]4.6 Mb
Love Me Love My Dog
[1:43]2.2 Mb
Sonntag
[3:28]5.4 Mb
Sanctuary
[13:06]20.2 Mb
Yours Truly
[2:19]3 Mb
Seven
[4:16]6.7 Mb
Per Sempre Butterfly
[5:52]9.3 Mb
All American Happy Hour
[3:44]5.2 Mb
Sugarpie
[10:34]16 Mb
Brush Throat
[4:23]5.6 Mb
Alexander Hacke "Sanctuary" Album Review
again and again
This record is a impressive portrait of how diverse and talented Alexander Hacke is -from the movie soundtrack "Sonntag" to the throat singing in "Brush/Throat" to the rock elements of "Sanctuary" and back to electronic "All american Happy Hour" -it is like a journey from one part of Alexander Hacke to another -no wonder he calls it his Road record ..The ease in which he moves in the different music realms -electronic as acoustic is amazing and proves that Alexander Hacke is a lot more than just the bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. My favorite tracks are "Per Sempre Butterfly" with Gianna Nannini for its melancholic romantisism,"Sanctuary" for its hard core power and Seven - the mixture of experimental sounds and heavy beats is great -I can listen to the record over and over again and always hear something new and intriguing. The small hidden video documentary of Danielle de Picciotto is fun too - most of the many musicans participating on the record can be seen here.
Video Sanctuary Trailer
A short flick by Danielle de Picciotto as it is contained on the Sanctuary-album, by Alexander Hacke, on KoolArrow.
SOMAN - UNLEASH
Pusher
[4:33]8.7 Mb
Traitor
[4:04]7.6 Mb
Delta-PI
[6:13]10.9 Mb
80-20
[4:25]9.2 Mb
Ruler
[4:39]8.1 Mb
Antique (Proof mix)
[4:30]8.2 Mb
Soman "Unleash" Album Review
Old-school. You know the routine. Time to go.
This is a neat little EP, and I had the luck of seeing Soman perform live on the VNV Nation Formation Tour in the US. And damn if I don't listen to this EP more than I listen to all of VNV now.
This is old-school sounding electronica for industrial fans. The songs were tightly-knit, extremely well-produced, and as cool as hell. The beats are absolutely relentless, which each song containing MANY, MANY different drum sounds and motions. The mainstay of these songs is the 4x4 beat, but there is so much drum activity going on you won't care. Distortion abounds, and it is wonderful!
The synths follow their own little runs without too much progression, but enough to keep the songs on-track and interesting.
Many of the songs use build-ups and break-downs to great effect. This is music to play LOUD. It's exciting to listen to and it really gets your blood flowing. If Amazon ever posts samples, I wouldn't necessarily decide whether to buy based on them. You can hear Soman's work in remixes of "Chrome" by VNV Nation and "Shelter" by Combichrist. If this quality of songwriting gets put into album form, you be sure that it will be an album to remember.
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