The Cyberden Presents -- Various Artists -- Digital Wings

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1997
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The Cyberden BBS and Web Site Present Digital Wings

Various Artists ______________________________ Track Listing 1. Xorcist -- Bad Mojo (Satyria Mix 1997) 2. Scar Tissue -- Powerclone (1997) 3. Xenon -- Ygrene Citenik (1997) 4. Seofon -- 5-Space (1997) 5. Retina -- Exorcise (1990) 6. Insight 23 -- Disease (1995) 7. Out Of Band Experience -- Sample This (1997) 8. Gridlock -- Sickness 9. Institute Of Technology -- Smartbeets (1994,1997) 10. The Bleeding Stone -- Shattered Belief (1997) 11. Never -- Incinerating Lucidity (1997) 12. Intercepted Alien Transmission -- (off shortwave radio) 13. Xenon -- Icon Jazz (1997) ______________________________ This is an excellent compilation for the power electro enthusiast! Presented by The Cyberden BBS and Web Site (1997), this CD heralds an array of verytasty bands and sounds not to be missed by those of you who enjoy the dark electro death- ambient definitive power glide of said genres Not only that, it's imited to 1000 copies, so order it soon! I have to say that Xorcist and Evoltwin donated two of these autographed CDs our my Women In-dustrial contest this summer! Thank you to both of you for doing that!

Xorcist kicks off the electronic barrage with a delightully sinister remix of Bad Mojo and slides into Scar Tissue's Powerclone, a kick ass drum and bass aural assult weapon with Steve Watkins (drums, synths) and Phil Caldwell, (guitar tweekings). Don't shy away from Scar Tissue because you have heard or read they use guitar -- most of the time Phil's wizardry on strings doesn't sound like traditional guitar work. Be not thou-est afraid of Phil's guitar! :) Xenon sets the pace for a dreamy electro-jazz, experimental ambient work with Ygrene Citenik and Icon Jazz which has operatic male vocals fading into soft drumming, deep dark synth drone which moves into a mid-pace of highhat, cymbols, layered in texture with upbeat drums, sampled "Hey Hey Momma...." -- an overall wickedly enticing sound!

A more ambient sound which is simply incredible is Seofon's 5-Space, which encompasses a long intense acid-electro track. (Where are these people?) Reminescent of those "mid-Puppy" days, Retina kicks it hard with Exorcised. Insight 23 leaves me wanting more with their traditional heavy guitar electro-noise industrial work, Disease, and Gridlock pounds out some hard electro-torture noise with scary treated vocals, harmony and reverb on drums in Sickness.

The Institute Of Technology however in Smartbeets is full of diversity ranging from almost trip hop electronic jazz, deep guitar and alarm whirring synth laden with samples. If you often find yourself bored, get IT! Going even deeper into the darkness of electronica, the bleeding stone's Shattered Belief moves the listener into an outstanding piece of synth work, drums and great vocals. Never is electronica at its finest with Incinerating Lucidity -- clanking of metal, dark synths and hard samples of what sounds like a whining deep trumpet and exotic winds/vocals of which round out this excellent track. Sampling knows few limits in off shortwave radio by Intercepted Alien Transmissions -- noise, deep reverb layered with sonic pitch and scratchy drift dominates this artwork.

Is this CD sold out yet? If not, go to Cyberden and buy it. This compilation can NOT be over rated!

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