Released
1998

Label
Self Released

Reviewed by
S. Glitsos

Contact
Eye

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Eye/Aya/Blatant Propoganda


Last Edit/Update
07 October, 1999

Eye

Aphazia 1992-1998
(assorted demos)

Track Listing

1. blind progress through blind faith (d.u.g. II mix)
2. grave new world
3. sleepwalkers (aya insomnia-mix)
4. kadoish (x3) adonai tseybeyoth
5. aya - the bions
6. the key (mutant mix)
7. cognitive dissonance (aya miromimix)
8. perspective
9. herd under social hypnosis (live at the australian national university)
10. room 101
i) rat therapy,
ii) torture's confession,
iii) post-rehab re-union
11. does this look like science to you?
12. silence is golden (work in progress)

If someone had described this CD to me, I would probably not give it any heed. A lot of vocal samples, poltiically oriented lyrics, a hefty amount of beats, etc. Another FLA clone. Big deal.

But this band is way better than that. Comparing them with almost anyone in the "industrial" scene would be not giving them enough credit. I consistently found this album (or more appropriately, collection of demos) to be surprising, fun, listenable, and most importantly, interesting. These guys are definitely talented and know how to use their gear.

A fair amount of the disc follows a similar pattern: beats, insane electronics, somwhat annoying vocals with somewhat cheesy lyrics, and some vocal samples here and there. They pull it off EXTREMELY well, especially in such tracks as "blind progress through blind faith" and "kadoish (x3) adonai tseybeyoth." So far my only real complaint, other than the vocals (which weren't really to my liking), is that they used samples from 1984 in the track "Grave New World" -- a play on the novel "Brave New World." Cute, but no cigar. But maybe I'm being retentive to the point of not letting poodle-sized feces out.

ANYways. Not only can the boys from EYE do dancey industrial crazy-music. They can do noise collage. "room 101" is one of the best tracks I've heard in a while. It's one of those "you must hear it to believe it tracks." It's followed by "does this look like silence to you?," which is another noisey track, although it seems more focused on vocal samples than the previous. Track 12 is listed as "silence is golden" -- a 0-track recording between 1992 and 1998. Work in progress. If it's as good as the rest of the CD -- or better, since it's six years in the making -- I would love to hear it.

Also to note is the webpage, which is home to Eye, Aya (I presume a sideproject of the guys from Eye), and Blatant Propoganda. Blatant Propoganda is basically an alternative information source for more "enlightened" (depending on your defnition of that word), socially conscious people. You'll find material on vivisection, pharmaceuticals, the medai, and a host of other topics, with a lot of information that you'd be hardpressed to find anywhere else in such a well-researched, organized manner.

Scientific studies show that some of the material on this web-site induce the abnormal mental condition known as "thought". If you experience this distressful reaction, the authorities recommend that you shut down your computer immediately, immerse yourself in television and top 40 radio and consume large quantities of prozac. If none of these are available, hit yourself in the head until unconscious.

- the Eye/Aya/Blatant Propoganda webpage