Released
1998
Label
Ant-Zen
Reviewed by
Michael C. Lund
Contact
c/o Raoul Roucka
Freystr. 1
80802 München
Deutschland
c/o Stefan Alt
Lessingstr. 7A
93049 Regensburg
Deutschland
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Last Edit/Update
04 oktober, 1998
Noisex
IGNARROGANCE (2CD)
Track Listing
The First Face
1. Screams From A Handicapped Nation
2. Biohazard
3. Cardiac Infarction
4. Bang Tha' Beat Bastard
5. Lava (Silent Death)
6. Plasmid
7. I Will!
8. Stinger
9. Psychotic Guardians In Absence
10. X-Ecution
11. Maschinwerk (Lust!Figure Style)
12. Don't Ya' Fuckin' Look At Me
13. Noisexorzist
14. Digital Disease
15. Black Tortüre
16. S.Phynxx
The Second Face
1. Burn These Puppets
2. Stomp Age
3. Ignarrogance
4. Phantom Fist
5. Lava (X-Ecuted)
6. NT-ZN
7. Noisedisco
8. Alone
9. Tomorrow Is One Day After
10. One Vision
11. EKG Baby
12. X-Ecution (Lust!Figure Style)
13. In Noise We Trust
14. The Hidden
15. Automätic
16. Templedance
17. Auf Geht's Buam ! (Very Special Bonus)
The third CD from Noisex is out! Ignarrogance is a double-CD with
a total of 33 tracks (almost 2 1/2 hours of music), and Ant-Zen is once
more the label responsible for the attack. For anyone remotely familiar with the
high standards of Noisex and Ant-Zen, no further
motivation should be necessary to rush out and acquire this monolithic release.
The sound of Noisex
is dominated by heavy, accelerated percussion of a metallic quality, and downright
distorted and smudgy aural textures. Roucka's vocals are mostly reduced to single
words or short phrases repeated with hypnotic intensity, in a voice that is coarse and
raspy. Occasionally aided by a synth theme or a media sample, these are the essential
components, from which Noisex has constructed the strong program of songs
featured on Ignarrogance. There is hardly a dull moment, the music is at all times
dynamic and charged, and many of the songs are even catchy in a manner that one would not
think possible, considering the raw and aggressive nature of the music.
Although Ignarrogance does
not seem to follow any fixed structural schema, the CD -- as reflected in its title --
revolves around two aspects of the human psyche that often travel together: ignorance and
arrogance. These two mental conditions come to the fore in the lyrics, as well as in the
samples that have been used on a few of the songs. However, more notably, the fierceness
of the music itself appears to be a comment -- or revolt -- against ignorance and
arrogance, or ignarrogance as Roucka would have it.
In accordance with Raoul Roucka's
rigid self-imposed release pattern, Ignarrogance has been released exactly 400 days
after Noisex's last CD Over And Out, and there should be enough
material here to keep Noisex fans everywhere busy for the next 400 days.
However, should this not be the case, Ignarrogance has also been made available in
a special edition of only 686 copies, which includes an extra 7" with three exclusive
tracks ("Ticket to Nowhere," "Wicked Weirdoz" and "Bobolovsky's
Diner"), as well as a wealth of other curiosities such as a metal pin, postcard,
and...a Noisex condom (unfortunately only designed for the smaller
members of the audience).
