Released
1997
Label
Catastrophe Records
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
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Last Edit/Update
08 April, 1998
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Various Artists
Glory Of Destruction
Track Listing
(Links below direct you to
a site where band data can be found)
1. Alkaline
Fazemast V1.0
2. SMP
Wet Wire
3. PX5
Undercut (Transistormix)
4. Noxious Emotion
Boundary (coalition)
5. Osofaux
Lead Me Not
6. Miasma Of Funk & Bis Ende
The Law of Averages
7. A New January
Sweet Enough To Steal
8. sexwithsarah
Spread.suckMix
9. Rosary Wall
Jesus Loves The Children
10. geffnecht
The Soft Machine (Demo v.01)
11. Bis Ende
Apelsinner
12. }Hexdump{
United States Of Production
13. The Dawn
The Navigator
14. Tyrophex 14
Death Box (Destruction mix)
15. Fiercen
Life Cycle
This release by Catastrophe has a great deal of variation in sound ranging from
mid 80s pop-synth, techno, experimental and industrial.
Steve Watkins of Scar Tissue
fame begins this cd with a dreamy piece of work as Alkaline, a wonderful addition
to this compliation, drum and bass, synth drone and a sweet synth melody wrapped around
the drum and bass in Fazemast v.1.0. Worthy of mention here is PX5 bringing a
sort of Disco-feel to the release with Undercut, an even darker mix of Noxious
Emotion's Boundary, and SMP's Wet Wire, more of a light
industrial tune. Osofaux reminds me of the mid 80s Depeche Mode type of
thing...and leads into a funky tune byMiasma of Funk, which has some great
sampled vocals in it about racism.
A New January kicks in
with the once again rather popish melody driven Sweet Enough To Steal, good vocals
but a little sappy to me...unless of course you like that sort of thing, it reminds me of
early Moody Blues with more speed and guitar. Progressing then into Sexwithsarah's
track: spread.suck Mix, which has the rhythm of trip hop, is that right? and leads
from that into a dark vocal laden winding synth piece of evil sounding melody.
Rosary Wall starts with
vocal samples "I would like to be different than I am...", high speed techno
synth drumming coupled with screaming vocals about how "Jesus loves the
children"... slowing down a bit with geffnecht's track The Soft Machine,
another soft dreamy electro piece, with spooky treated vocals and prevalent drumming, good
track.
Continuing on, Bis Ende
intrudes with the organics of slow tasty guitar and drums, an abrupt change from the rest
of the cd, very nice. }Hexdump{ steps up the tempo with United States of
Production, a harder sound not much unlike rock from the 70s mixed with electronics
and techno- edge of the 90s shaken not blended. The calming entrance of The Dawn
with Navigator is more ambient, melodic and beautifully expansive in their sound
generations -- Tyrophex 14 on the other hand continues with a hard industrial
track Death Box: (Destruction Mix, which incorporates many of the industrial
elements, whirring synths, drumming you could dance to, warped vocal samples treated that
sound rather ominous, wacked guitar riffs, and those screaming vocals. Good tract! Fiercen
ends the cd with Life Cycle, another delicious electro work of experimental ambient
sounds, one of the slower cuts on this release, hauntingly refreshing with the waves of
noise and vocals used here. Good track as well...!
This compilation is overall quite
diverse in sounds/bands and belongs in you collection if your taste in music isnt narrow
minded.
