Released
1997
Produced at
Immortal Productions
Label
Ava/Earth Station 1
Reviewed by
Kim
Alexander
Contact
Ava/Earth Station 1
P.O. Box 605488
Cleveland Ohio, 44105 usa
Email
Ava
Last Edit/Update
09 March, 1999
Cellar
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Track Listing
1. Now UC
2. Tell It Like It Is
3. Happiet Man Alive
4. I Know There's Somthing Going On
5. Touch Skin Underwear
6. Changing A Stone Into Cake
7. Your Turn
8. Are You Well? ....Hope So
9. TSU (Hands Off Remix)
10. 4:02 A.M.
14. Hidden Track -- Untitled
Music performed and Instrumentation by
JSIN and Colette Nemeth
WoW what an
interesting release this one is! Synth work, drum and bass, great vocal sampling,
and tasty progressive movements of creativity and organization. I'd term this one mainly
experimental electronica with a slice of drum and bass and a big helping of synthy
wierdness. Not a release to be taken lightly however, Cellar brings
us an excellent quality in terms of engineering (JSIN) and thoughtful
samples, from where I know not, but you can clearly hear the voices layered with really
cool sounds of ticking, drum machine and deep bass (TSU) and a light touch of
melody set with keyboard.
Now UC is very cool, swishy percussion and clicking, simple
melody line, low and ominous bass yet sparky in its own way, quite tasty, "You're a
COWARD, you're a bunch of COWARDS!" "If I had any feelings left inside, they'd
be just for me.."...and they go on and on..."When I was a kid, I swore I'd kill
them myself, but I didn't have to, they drank themselves to death." "Nice
going boss."
Funkiness isn't void on this CD, and neither is serious intense
electronica as in the case of Tell It like It Is and Happiest Man Alive
respectively. There's Something Going On is very cool, hard percussion,
drilling guitar (sampled maybe?) and female voice treated and twisted singing: "I
know....there's something going on....if you want to leave...then why don't you
say...you're love's gone anyways...It won't be long before you're gone."
The last track, 4:02 A.M. is really cool....it starts out with
this band with horns playing some really cute song as if you are at a carnival show, then
this sample of some woman talking on the phone, and the last piece of the carnival song
skips over and over and over again into an oblivious sampled nightmarish rendition from
music of the past, (I'm never ever gonna give you up -- Tom Jones maybe??)...really NICE
and twisted! There is a hidden track at the end of the CD which involves a sample of
Tracy Chapman that is seriously looped into total disconfiguration, it seems to go on and
on and on leaving you unknowing of the origin by the time it ends.
This release kicks it hard. Tasty, innovative, and excellent
quality. Email Baal/Ava for a copy, you won't be let down with Cellar.