Individual Totem: S.E.T.I.
- Human/Machine Interaction
- Radar Trance
- Wavicels
- New General Catalogue
- Remotely Brained Control
- Levitation
- Branching Universe I
- Human Mutilation
- Branching Universe II
- Abductees
- Implicate Order
This release is very hard to pin down, because it's a full-flavored fusion of
many different styles which include ambient, ebm, and trance. With the number
of styles present, you might expect expect this album to come across like a
haphazardous, thrown-together spires of noises and beats or to give off the
sensation of being disjointed, but that is not the case. The band manages to
convincingly combine all those different elements and still maintain an overall
continuity to the album, as well as adding in an outer-dimensional feel to it
as well. The track Wavicels is probably the catchiest, with its blend of a
strong, infectious beat, subdued, yet treated vocals and flowing keyboard
lines. But every song on here could easily be recommended; there are no filler
song to be found on this release. While most of the songs are lengthy (only two
clock in at under 5 minutes), they never feel as though they should have been
shortened. There is just too much to enjoy on each track.
(Kevin Congdon)
Individual Totem are: Berd Madl & Mathias Knopp
Contact:
Pendragon Records
P.O. Box 388
Yardley, PA 19067
E-mail: pendrag1@aol.com
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