Released
1995
Label
Self Released
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
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Last Edit/Update
11 April, 1998
Broca's Area
Random Acts Of Violence
Track Listing
Side A
A Piece Of Negativland
1. Firmie
2. Vice
3. Predatory Instinct
4. She'll Come Around
5. Not A Word
6. 1-2-3-4 Low
Side B
Reference Tones
1. On A Wire
2. Shadowall
3. First Act
4. A Blunt Instrument
5. Pursuit
6. A Scene At Night
7. Second Act
8. Gone Under
Mike Delaney: Keyboard, Drums, Sequences,First
and Second Acts, 1-2-3-4 high
John Sosnowski: Keyboard, Guitar, Pursuit Loop, 1-2-3-4 Low
Broca's Area engages in high energy noise and electronic wizardry in the opening
of Firmie, a clanky, and fuzzy guitar background melody, heavily laden with bass
drumming, toms that slowly drifts off into silence. More clanking and samples of noise and
keyboards bring out the definitive sounds and a Puppy-like beat in Vice,
leading into Predatory Instinct, a rolling electro barrage of synths and sequences
that cresendo's to sounds which immitate a small nuclear explosion yet quieter and softer
than the real thing of course, yet the piece drums up that vision in my head....
She'll Come Around changes
direction to a more subtle upbeat drum-laden synth driven track with treated vocal samples
of what sounds like someone screaming far off in the distance and is peppered with
electronic bleeps and more tasty guitar. Not A Word swerves in to yet another
direction with a melodic ambient work that is simply beautiful --
expansive, slow, dramatic yet powerfully engaging my mind's eye to drift back to pristine
ancient forests, or perphaps the fond memories of a distant loved one.
This side ends with 1.2.3.4, a sampled electro-quirk of sonic injections of
different voices counting up to 4 over and over again....
Side B is again more noise injections (near to sirens but not as piercing) and steady
drumming having good sequences of warped and twisted synth as in the opening track: On
A Wire, however Shadowall defies the earlier tracks with a mello reverberating
of keyboards. First Act brings: A Blunt Instrument and is a delicious blend of
drumming, ticks, and melodics with more miscellaneous synthetic treatments adding to the
effects giving an ominous air about the piece. Pursuit picks up speed with sampled
vocals, a spaciously ambient background of melody, quick tasty drum loops that remind me
of some FSOL or ORB, very good...
A Scene At Night is darker
by title but also by sound, slower powerful deep bass drum (F242 style), hauntingly steady
with more machine like clanks and warped sampled effects, layered with threatening drones
or flowing harmonic chorals of different pitch in the background, and fades off into
nothingness. Excellent track. Second Act, yet another wonderfully
sensuous snippet of keyboard, is followed up with Gone Under, a dark work yet with
snappy march-like drumming sequenced and overlayed by what sounds like the bleeps as in
the ones in "Tainted Love", and continues on with more clanking and scary
effects and reverberations.
This tape is an interesting yet
provocative piece of work not to be taken lightly. Email Broca's Area for
Random Acts of Violence! It's worth every penny....and more.
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