I START COUNTING - CATALOGUE
Still Smiling (Fortran 5 remix)
[6:42]10.7 Mb
17 Pens
[5:20]8.9 Mb
Money (Holger F5 remix)
[5:01]8 Mb
Million Headed Monster
[3:53]6.1 Mb
Cranley Gardens
[5:55]8.1 Mb
Listen
[5:29]7.5 Mb
You and I
[3:41]5.4 Mb
Letters to A Friend (Miller mix)
[5:26]8.3 Mb
Modern Sunbathing
[3:58]6.3 Mb
Lose HIM (Annihilation mix)
[6:27]10.9 Mb
Grass Snake
[2:44]4.1 Mb
Birmingham
[3:58]6.1 Mb
Catch that Look
[3:59]5.7 Mb
I Start Counting "Catalogue" Album Review
Not a bad compilation.
This is a sort of greatest hits CD that collects songs from the band's previous two CD's (yup... a greatest hits collection of two CD's). Anyway you not only get original recordings (some remastered for a slightly better recording) you also get some remixes as well. This band was a bit hit and miss with their music, and this CD is not much better. Still you get some decent tracks. Here's a breakdown of some notable stuff:
STILL SMILING [FORTRAN 5 MIX] - This one is actually a good deal better than the original. Very lush and rhythmic at the same time. A good early electronic vibe to it.
MONEY [HOLGER F5 MIX] - Just as annoying as the original mix. Just more messy industrial sounds thrown around. All this song does is play the word "money" in samples along with freaked out (and not in a good way) beats and avantgarde sounding rhythms. Not for me.
LETTERS TO A FRIEND [MILLER MIX] - To be frank the original recording from My Translucent Hands is better. This one is much more understated with a lot of deep bass that muddies up the mix.
A R S - A R S
No Country
[5:29]8.6 Mb
Judge of the Nations
[4:28]5.9 Mb
Rats of God
[5:31]8.9 Mb
Timor
[7:41]14.6 Mb
Vive la Resistance
[4:39]7.1 Mb
Rising Sun
[5:45]7.3 Mb
Zentralkomitee
[4:38]9.8 Mb
Obedience
[3:41]5.6 Mb
No Fear
[2:15]2.8 Mb
A R S "A R S" Album Review
Mediocre
Excellent start with Hallelujah chorus and then fizzled after that with a few intermittent high points. I just did not like this particular package of songs. Too much new age sound toward the end. Wish I would have read the other reviews before purchase.
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SKIN CHAMBER - WOUND
Carved in Skin (Apt 213)
[3:19]5.6 Mb
Slice of God
[8:04]14 Mb
Sucked Inside
[7:45]12.9 Mb
Skin Me
[1:21]2.2 Mb
Mind Grinder
[6:02]10.4 Mb
In the Sewer of Dreams
[7:36]12.3 Mb
Burning Power
[5:25]9.1 Mb
The Nails of Faith
[7:58]13 Mb
Fat Hacker
[0:39]1 Mb
Horde
[3:17]5.4 Mb
Swollen Underground
[6:22]10.2 Mb
Swallowing Scrap Metal (part 2)
[3:14]5.2 Mb
Healing Time
[6:31]10.3 Mb
Skin Chamber "Wound" Album Review
Good proto-sludge.
Skin Chamber, Wound (Roadrunner, 1991)
Imagine my surprise to find out that Skin Chamber were actually a Controlled Bleeding side project recently. Skin Camber have far more in common with early Godflesh (back when they were still a sludge metal band) than they do with Controlled Bleeding. But there they are, the ultra-prolific Paul Lemos and sidekick Chris Moriarty, pounding out a weird upside-down cross between late-eighties industral (think harder-edged Nitzer Ebb here, rather than the more danceable stuff, or early Chemlab) and slow, brutal metal (Celtic Frost's more introspective material, maybe). One thing it is that Controlled Bleeding too often weren't is listenable. If you're into that sort of thing, of course. A friend of mine, back when Wound came out, had it recommended to her because she was into nine inch nails and Master/Slave Relationship. I don't think she ever patronized that record store again...
Lemos sounds as if he's gargling nails while being burned alive by lava. It's a beautiful thing. *** ½
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