Propeller * Argento Pre-Release Exclusive

1. a bucket of tar in the kisser
2. bleating sap
3. the great generator
4. blue stern
5. karl marx stadt
6. serra a.b.
7. smug fighting ways
8. "no man can sing another mans blues" -- charles mingus
9. the tall second minute protest march
10. what is seen equals what is unseen
11. to run as sparks through stubble
12. all our yesterdays have lighted fools
13. positively allergic to color

    For those of you who are not familiar with Propeller, it is a side project of Mark Spybey of Dead Voices On Air [DVOA], ex-member of Download. This is a pre-release exclusive sold on tour in December, 1999, usa and is supposed to be released on Scratch Records. Guests on this release include Eric Pounder [Pounder], Darryl Neudorf [Abintra], Ryan Moore (Twilight Circus in Dub, Legendary Pink Dots], Sugarpill [Abintra], and is produced by Mark Spybey and Darryl Neudorf in Vancouver British Columbia, 1999.
    As in the style of DVOA, this release is basically experimental ambient in nature. There are long slow drawn out rhythms and moody background synths. The release also brings out a fair amount of ambient noise with stronger swirling noise beats. Sub-melodics and pulsing abrasive phzzzzt's accent moving harmonies. It's quite a beautiful release.
    One short outstanding track, "the great generator" is very mello with acoustic guitar [I'd guess this is Eric Pounder's work], which sets the stage for a dreamlike fantasy, light and soft. Drifing synths with spacious timbres and pulsing beats highlight "blue stern". Melancholic acoustic guitar [Pounder again?], seems to contradict intermittent buzzing and noise which creates the basis for "karl marx stadt". "smug fighting ways" is a noisy piece of work using fast pulsing static sound that sounds someone is welding metal to metal in fast motion. "positively allergic to color", the last track on the release, is an eerie pulsing scratchy bass beat with a sub-harmonic drone swirl like that of bumblebees far off in the distance. Another great track.
    Overall this release should be of interest to those of you who follow DVOA and Marks related works in the genres of ambient noise. This is an exquisite release with excellent production and composition. My copy was ripped to CDrom and has no cover art or CD writing but did come with a piece of paper with tracks and guests/thank you to Alexander Varty. It was covered in thin white [rice?] paper with a silver mantra stamped onto it with Spybeys autograph.