Monday, November 26, 2007

CD - Coil - The Snow EP (TORSO CD 180) NE



1 The Snow (Driftmix) (2:35)
2 The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams I) (5:47)
3 The Snow (Out In The Cold) (7:43)
4 The Snow (As Pure As?) (6:33)
5 The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II) (5:57)
6 The Snow (6:48)

Considering the release date (1991), this was a brilliant step forward in electronic music. Combining big, hard breakbeats with an absolutely eerie sample of an old vocal quartet (Mills Brothers?). If you like any of Jack Dangers / Meat Beat Manifesto, this is one you can not pass up. Start with that Psychic TV / Throbbing gristle acid-born prescience and uneasiness, throw in driving MBM-style breakbeats and Spooky-like synth textures. Top off with one of the most haunting vocal samples ever to grace an electronica album. These are long dead ghosts from the past, voices heard in the howling wind, saying 'All too soon, life had passed. Carpe diem, foolish mortal."

http://brainwashed.com/coil/
http://www.thresholdhouse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/originalcoiluk

Coil - The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II):

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