Newsgroups: alt.rave
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:03:27 -0400 
From: Matthew Donald Drown <md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: REVIEW: Volume 3 Comp

Thought I would start reviewing some of the things that I get my hands
on.  For the people here on alt.rave, I'll only put a mini review of the
tracks that would be of interest.

Volume 3:  This is a cd/200 page booklet.  All the tracks are supposed
to be new to the the comp.  This isn't always entirely true, but it does
get some good stuff.  This is got to be about 3 months old in the UK,
but just found it around here.
Track Listing:
 1. Daisy Chainsaw "I Feel Insane" (Live)
 2. Therapy? "Innocent X" (Specially Remixed)
 3. Depth Charge "Daughters of Darkness" (Specially Recorded)
 4. Dissposable Heroes... "California Uber Alles" (New Recording)
 5. Levitation "Cloud shine"(Previously Un-Released)
 6. Charlatans "Over Rising" (Instrumental)
 7. Psychotropic Vibration "Jesus Timeshare Experience" (Debut)
 8. Breeders "Safari" (Remix)
 9. Honey Tongue "Let's Sail Away" (Remix)
10. Terrorvision "My House" (Previously Un-Released)
11. P.I.L. "Criminal" (Remix)
12. Sweet Jesus "Sisterfy" (Original)
13. Orbital "Belfast/Wasted" (New Vocal Version)
14. Moby "Go" (Subliminal Mix)
15. Natural Life "Find Our Direction" (Remix)
16. LFO "Slow Down Speedy"(Previously Un-Released)
17. Sheep on Drugs "Motorbike"(Special Remix)
18. Interference "Overload" (Debut)

Reviews:
 1. Daisy Chainsaw - Indie Rock Stuff, ok, nothing special
 2. Therapy? - Not bad, lots of old Wax Trax sound w/ the Proccessed Vocals. 
 3. Depth Charge - This is J. Saul Kane.  The guy that has helped
produce Eon, Midi Rain, and Lots of others.  He also records under the
name Octagon Man.  This Track is a relatively trancy tune, with some
vocal samples from an old movie.  Not up to par with his Spice Remix,
but good.
 4. Disposable Heroes... - Don't really notice anything different with
this version.
 5. Levitation - Argh, Paul Simon doing Manchester shit.
 6.  Charlatans - Do I really need to review this?  Sounds like
everything else by them.  As a side note, when I saw these guys recently
people where slam dancing to stuff like this!?!?!?
 7. Psychotropic Vibration - More English Indie Rock.
 8. Breeders - Last I knew these guys can be found on Sire here in the
states.  More indie style rock stuff.  Closer to what Sire likes to
release though, a little tiny bit like Danielle Dax.
 9. Honey Tongue - See track 5.
10. Terrorvision - Stealing a name from the group Manufacture is one
thing, doing it and then not doing music that is interesting is what
this is.
11. PIL - I must admit to not having listened to anything Lydon has done
since Seatle.  This sounds a little like that, Rotten's vocals are back
in the mix, and the music is overpowering him.
12. Sweet Jesus - Shoe Gazer.
13. Orbital - Something you all should be interested in.  I haven't seen
this track anywhere.  And if you are trying to find all the orbital
stuff, you may want this.  It is the music from Belfast, with vocals
over it.  For some reason the song "The Promise" by "When in Rome" keeps
coming to mind when I hear the vocals, even though these are original
vocals as far as I know.
14. Moby - According to a friend of mine, this is the same mix as on the
CD single, and the vinyl.  I had never heard it before, and I own the
Single....  Mellow more in Moby's Housy style.
15. Natural Life - Latin Disco from a Casio MT series, add a guitar, and
some vocals from the early 80's and you get this band.
16. LFO - A DJ un-friendly tune.  A drum beat that keeps speeding up and
slowing down with some LFO style melodies on top of it.  Under 4 minutes
long, but if it was any longer, would get very boring.
17. Sheep on Drugs - Well, with samples from Revolting Cocks you'ld
think this could be great.  It comes out ok, but again, nothing special,
see track 2.
18. Interference - Well, another super group in formation.  A long track
that you wouldn't play at a dance, but is good.  Here is the line up so
you can imagine what this is gonna sound like.
Keith LeBlanc - Drums
Doug Wimbish - Bass
Skip McDonald - Guitar
   (these previous three are the Tack>>Head Crew without Adrian Sherwood)
Kenji Jamma - Heavy Metal Guitar
Tim  Simenon - Samples (Bomb the Bass)
 A La Mode -Rappin'
 Egon Zo - Sound FX
DJ  Harvey Birell - Mixing


All in all this comp is ok.  I picked it up for very cheap, but couldn't
really justify paying a lot for it.  If you are collector scum, then you
may want to pick it up for the Orbital and LFO tracks.

I'll be back soon with more reviews, these will be more Techno then this...
(I just picked up God Intended on Sonic)

-Matt (md3b@andrew.cmu.edu)
Techno Terrorists
8pm-2am Friday Nights
88.3fm WRCT Pittsburgh
 
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