Electronic Eye "Neurometrik" Alphaphone Recordings ALPHA CD6 2000 (69:52)
Harmonic Medication (6:30)
Hey
Chief (7:44)
Free
I Society (6:47)
Firestorm (6:55)
Salsa Mutante (4:18)
The Chaos Man (6:19)
Super
Afrique Highway (6:59)
The Cruncher (5:27)
Bush Techno Incident (5:38)
I Saw Him Last (6:49)
Incense for the Damned (5:37)
Beethoven Was a Terrorist (:49)
Arranged and produced by RHKirk.
Richard H. Kirk is back once again, this time resurrecting the Electronic Eye moniker for the first time in 5 years. It doesn't much matter which name Kirk uses ... Cabaret Voltaire, Sandoz, Sandoz in Dub, Trafficante, Dark Magus, Nitrogen, Sweet Exorcist, Al Jabr, Agents with False Memories, his given name, etc. ... you always have a general idea of what to expect from his frequent output. Kirk has done variations of the same thing for the past decade but he's so damn good at it it never gets tiresome. He has figured out a way to basically remain static without stagnating. "Neurometrik" clocks in just shy of 70 minutes with most tracks between 5 and 7 minutes in length. All the usual RHK elements are here: ambient synth textures (including some very familiar sounds from 1993's "Virtual State"), dub effects, static and noise, radio transmissions, speech and dialogue samples, ethnic/tribal/jazz samples and loops, massive techno beats and bass lines ... a big, thick, danceable sonic soup that sounds as claustrophobic and paranoid as Kirk is himself. The production is good with feedback and grit kept to a minimum and my God are there some absolutely thumpin' tracks this time around. Yet another great one from the master. The 8 page insert displays more of Kirk's concern with technological and political oppression via his cryptic, blurred images and an adaptation of a letter about a 'financial new order' from the Zapatista National Liberation Army of Mexico. Look for the new Richard H. Kirk album "Loopstatic" via Touch in March/April and, no doubt, several more discs throughout the year ...
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Where did I get this cd? - mail order via Riouxs Records.