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*Artist: Scorn
*Album: Ellipsis [best of/compilation]
*Year: 1995
*Genre: Experimental Industrial/Electronic/Ambient
*Country: United Kingdom
*Format: mp3@CBR224kbps
*Size: 126MB

Tracklist:
1. Silver Rain Fell (Meat Beat Manifesto Mix)
2. Exodus (Scorn Mix)
3. Dreamspace (Coil — 'Shadow vs. Executioner' Mix)
4. Night Ash Black (Bill Laswell — 'Slow Black Underground River' Mix)
5. Night Tide (Scanner — 'Flaneur Electronique' Mix)
6. Falling (Autechre — 'FR 13' Mix)
7. The End (P.C.M. — 'Nightmare' Mix)
8. Automata (Germ Mix)
9. Light Trap (Scorn Mix)
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Total playing time: 1:18:59

Extended info
This is primarily a remix album featuring Autechre, Meat Beat Manifesto, Scanner and the likes. Not a single bad track in sight. Scorns music suits the treatment and added atmosphere its given — from Scanner's schizoid telephone conversations to Coil's gothic variations. Superb dark ambient, perfect for those years you'll spend in isolation.

Mick Harris has had some small success as a solo artist, after leaving his drumming job for the grindcore band Napalm Death. Technically speaking he makes electronic albums, but the sound of Scorn is distinctly darker, sparser, and sometimes a bit on the boring side. Ambient keyboard drones and drum loops lumber along like chill-out music for vampires. It's ambient music for rock fans, and sometimes a tough sell. Harris gets wise and enlists the skill (and popularity) of acts like Meat Beat Manifesto, Autechre, Coil, and a few others to breathe life into Ellipsis, a remix project that broadened his exposure considerably. This album has some bland moments (some due to Harris's own remixing), but more often than not has something to please everyone. Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) turns out an enjoyable, subdued groove for the album's opening remix of Silver Rain Fell. Two tracks later, Coil provides a great 11+ minutes of steady rhythm and mystery for their Dreamspace mix. Of course, no project of this nature would be complete without Bill Laswell, a producer and musician who must be an insomniac for the amount of albums he's participated in. He's a good match for Harris (a frequent collaborator), showing equal parts repetition and gloom, exemplified here in the album's only track with vocals, Night's Ash Black. Next come a passable and basic mix from Scanner, whose strength has always been personified in the found soundbytes of actual cellphone conversations sprinkled throughout the mix. Next the electronic duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown show up with an exceptional Autechre remix of Falling; one that keeps things minimal, tense, and sinister (fans would agree it harkens back to a time when the group had some warmth). P.C.M. hits the controls next, with a pick-up-the-pace version of The End, firing away at the listener with a drum n' bass intensity — a welcome cup of coffee in the midst of a mostly downtempo album. Overall, the weight of Scorn bears heavily on the backs of these other musicians, who suffer somewhat by not having dynamic enough material to work with in the first place. Fortunately most of them have enough chops to stay afloat, making this a success for Mick Harris, and a sacrificial offering from his more talented guests.


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Akdkk
" ... after leaving his drumming job for the hardcore band Napalm Death."

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Velemysl
во истину зе бест pray.gif
kotekpsotek
QUOTE(Akdkk @ Jan 16 2010, 10:25:15) *
" ... after leaving his drumming job for the hardcore band Napalm Death."

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hehe, hardcore smile1.gif fixed!
vam1972
Для чего создаются ремиксы? Осовременить звучание, изменить (углУбить) смысл композиции, донести произведение др других категорий слушателей. А для слушателей, уже знакомых с оригинальными версиями представленных номеров, остается одно - развесить уши и решать: нравится или нет. Лично мне понравились: эмбиент-версии Dreamspace (Coil - не более и не менее, чем знак качества музыкальных работ), Night Ash Black (Bill Laswell - гений мрачных решений), Night Tide. Брейкбитовая версия Falling от Autechre тоже неплоха, поскольку действует как свербящая боль на теряющего сознание от кровопотери, а ей вторит разносторонняя и многоликая The End в "кошмарной версии" - то бежишь куда-то (быстрые фрагменты), то прячешься и пугаешься (на медленных).
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