HR162 - Various Artists - Welcome To Sleepy Eye - C60 — 1989
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Side A:
Moisten Before Use - Frustration
Ambulatorio Segreto - Operax
Bestattungsinstitut - Morphogenese
PCR - Sputum vitae
Stefano Barban - To all into a snare
Factor X - March
Side B:
Mental Anguish - Emotional Slack (Excerpt
Terrorplan - Earwigs
Big City Orchestra - Yvette
Treble King - Bonehead necktie
Imbroglio - Mystic Plateaus (Excerpt)
Moisten Before Use - Frustration
Ambulatorio Segreto - Operax
Bestattungsinstitut - Morphogenese
PCR - Sputum vitae
Stefano Barban - To all into a snare
Factor X - March
Side B:
Mental Anguish - Emotional Slack (Excerpt
Terrorplan - Earwigs
Big City Orchestra - Yvette
Treble King - Bonehead necktie
Imbroglio - Mystic Plateaus (Excerpt)
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
Matthias Lang’s IRRE Tapes was, like Harsh Reality, one of the great international labels of the 1980s. This was the second IRRE Tapes compilation Harsh Reality released (HR147 was the first). Here’s a quick tour of the contents, nearly all of which occupy points on the space ambient-soundscape axis…
Moisten Before Use (UK) is headed up by Clive Richards who plays an eerily spacey brand of dark ambience.
Ambulatorio Segreto was the international trio of Siegmar Fricke (Germany), Stefano Barban (Italy), and Miguel Ruiz (Spain). Their entry paints a surreal landscape, blending spectral psych ward voices, pleasantly oddball competing melodies, and assorted percussion and effects. Lots going on here!
Bestattungsinstitut (Germany) was a project from Siegmar Fricke and also the name of a label he ran. Harsh Reality had earlier released Fricke’s Militant Stuff tape (HR112). Fricke’s contribution lays down a repetitive pattern that injects a glacial feel, punctuated by minor subtle noise bits.
PCR is headed up by Peter Schuster who also ran the Prion Tapes label, offering up an awesomely drugged and doomy deep space soundscape excursion.
Stefano Barban (Italy) cooks up a fun amalgam of spacey soundscapes and aquatic, mechanic, and video game effects.
Faktor X (UK) is a solo project from Shaun Robert. His brief track is an animated orchestral piece that’s like a minimal Dada cartoon soundtrack.
Mental Anguish (US) is a solo project from Harsh Reality label captain Chris Phinney. He’s deep in the cosmos, creating a blend of floating melodic space electronica and the most space effects freakout segments of Hawkwind’s Space Ritual.
Terrorplan (UK) is a solo project from Ray Taylor, who indulges his inner Tangerine Dream with a sequenced, warbling, trippy journey through space.
Big City Orchestra (US) are prolific veterans of the homemade music underground. These folks excel at experimental tape manipulated works, mingling voice and music samples and effects to create a weirdly jarring collage.
Treble King (US) is a solo project from Mark Brooks, who contributes a minimal soundtrack piece that’s riddled with interrupted bits that sound like the track is struggling to start and keep moving.
Imbroglio (US) is the quartet of Chris Phinney, Mike Jackson, Michael Humphreys, and Tim Price. These guys whip up a gloomy yet spirited spaced out blend of somber melody and wigged out Forbidden Planet soundtrack.
Matthias Lang’s IRRE Tapes was, like Harsh Reality, one of the great international labels of the 1980s. This was the second IRRE Tapes compilation Harsh Reality released (HR147 was the first). Here’s a quick tour of the contents, nearly all of which occupy points on the space ambient-soundscape axis…
Moisten Before Use (UK) is headed up by Clive Richards who plays an eerily spacey brand of dark ambience.
Ambulatorio Segreto was the international trio of Siegmar Fricke (Germany), Stefano Barban (Italy), and Miguel Ruiz (Spain). Their entry paints a surreal landscape, blending spectral psych ward voices, pleasantly oddball competing melodies, and assorted percussion and effects. Lots going on here!
Bestattungsinstitut (Germany) was a project from Siegmar Fricke and also the name of a label he ran. Harsh Reality had earlier released Fricke’s Militant Stuff tape (HR112). Fricke’s contribution lays down a repetitive pattern that injects a glacial feel, punctuated by minor subtle noise bits.
PCR is headed up by Peter Schuster who also ran the Prion Tapes label, offering up an awesomely drugged and doomy deep space soundscape excursion.
Stefano Barban (Italy) cooks up a fun amalgam of spacey soundscapes and aquatic, mechanic, and video game effects.
Faktor X (UK) is a solo project from Shaun Robert. His brief track is an animated orchestral piece that’s like a minimal Dada cartoon soundtrack.
Mental Anguish (US) is a solo project from Harsh Reality label captain Chris Phinney. He’s deep in the cosmos, creating a blend of floating melodic space electronica and the most space effects freakout segments of Hawkwind’s Space Ritual.
Terrorplan (UK) is a solo project from Ray Taylor, who indulges his inner Tangerine Dream with a sequenced, warbling, trippy journey through space.
Big City Orchestra (US) are prolific veterans of the homemade music underground. These folks excel at experimental tape manipulated works, mingling voice and music samples and effects to create a weirdly jarring collage.
Treble King (US) is a solo project from Mark Brooks, who contributes a minimal soundtrack piece that’s riddled with interrupted bits that sound like the track is struggling to start and keep moving.
Imbroglio (US) is the quartet of Chris Phinney, Mike Jackson, Michael Humphreys, and Tim Price. These guys whip up a gloomy yet spirited spaced out blend of somber melody and wigged out Forbidden Planet soundtrack.