Download "Inception: The
Subconscious Jams 1994 - 1995" Subsonscious Recordings sub14 2002 (79:47)
Primitive Tekno Jam (3:23)
Bee Sting Sickness (8:04)
Weed Acid Techno (8:19)
Recovered (5:26)
Left the Radio On (3:45)
Deepdark Modular (3:44)
So Easy to Kill (7:11)
This Is Quality Grass (3:43)
Krackerzz (5:22)
30065 Morningview Dr (7:55)
Dubplate From Ochy (5:37)
Thats.Our.Process (4:48)
Wavestation Phuq (5:40)
Tweeter Blower (4:06)
800-525 (2:44)
This is the first in a series of seven limited edition (1000), mail order releases from the vaults of Subconscious Recordings, home to Skinny Puppy expatriates Download and related projects. 80 minutes worth of DAT jams from 1994-5, the seminal "Furnace" and "The Eyes of Stanley Pain" era, have been edited down to 15 tracks by cEvin Key and Native Instruments' Omar Torres. The jams of "Inception" are, as advertised, pretty much just that: germination of ideas, creative foundations. Demos really. The twitchy electronic hybrids of ambient, noise and techno that was their signature at the time is of course evident and the production is clean, but this is not thickly textured, fully polished, fully realized product. I hoped for diamonds in the rough, something spectacular yet inexplicably unreleased, but the fact is the crème de la crème found its way in finished form to the albums and EPs. But at least the rabid completists, those willing to shell out $20 per disc, get more insight into the process. As well as more of the late Dwayne Rudolf Goettel's output, considered by many to be the crucial creative component of the original grouping's magic. Mark Spybey is credited on 4 tracks but, unfortunately, his vocals are nowhere to be found. "Sidewinder Snake" from the "Sidewinder" EP promo is mysteriously resurrected as "Left the Radio On" and "Tweeter Blower" from the "Charlie's Family" soundtrack reappears in a disappointingly less noisy and rhythm-less form. "Krackerzz" stands out as a possibly finished track that didn't make a final cut, understandably so. Overall, everything sounds too flat and too thin. It just makes me want to listen to the brilliant "Furnace", "TEOSP" and their accompanying EPs instead ...
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