Engine Machine

Engine Machine Artist: Dureforsog
Label: Koolarrow Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 680316001122
EAN: 0680316001122
ASIN: B00006FSUA


Release Date: 2002-08-13

Engine Machine


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Tracks:

  1. Traffix
  2. All I Have In My Pocket
  3. A Racetrack
  4. Nothing At All
  5. Interlude
  6. Engine Machine
  7. Get On Land
  8. Up Tide
  9. Kitchen Device
  10. Rundetaarn, Kbh.
  11. Bethnal Green

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sonic Youth trying to jam out 'Zeppelin.......2002-08-27

Sounding somewhere between PiL, Fugazi, Can, Einstürzende Neubauten and dEUS, this is abstract craziness at it's finest, for once an experimental record that really is like one long sonic laboratory. It begins with the jagged obliqueness of 'Traffix' and 'All I have In My Pocket', takes us on a ride through batty Dead Kennedys Stooges territory with 'A Racetrack' then the occasionally anthemic chaos of 'Nothing At All', the abstraction never dropping for a moment. 'Interlüde' is less dissonant, by turns pretty, by turns thoughtful, and the title track sounds like a looped and twisted album outtro, music to have a bad trip to. I love the way Andreas H's linear beats built up at the beginning of 'Get On Land', and love the chorus of ethereal 60's girl voices that magically appears in the middle eight, before Boris Z added his own voice and builds it up into a mesmerising mantra. 'Up Tide' veers wildly via The Residents ,the B52s (on helium!) and a touch of Melt Banana, before launching off on a huge beautifully textured instrumental jam that crossfades and mutates all over the place. 'Kitchen Device' touches on hardcore punk, metal dirge, echoing voices and spooky soundtracks, then a little bit of disembodied helium filled narration.... On 'Rundetaarn, Kbh.' the track begins like Sonic Youth trying to jam out 'Zeppelin, then empties out to eerie soundtrack, repetitive guitar and chimes, building up suspense by getting quieter and emptier until... it kicks back in with shrieking guitar and that blasting heavy groove. It's a journey, perhaps what you could call a progressive rock band, but a billion times more out-there than such a title might suggest. The album ends with 'Bethnal Green', which starts like an ambient track that manages to make birdsong spooky, goes off into even more spooky vocals and a long meandering Can-style groove and manages to make my cd player countdown from minus four and a half minutes before reaching zero and counting forward for the next ten and a half ... smart arses!
It's difficult to describe a record such as this, because there's such a lot going on. It is sometimes curious, sometimes funny, sometimes powerful, sometimes beautiful, always abstract and always mutating and I'd recommend it to anyone who sits on the left field, but in terms of mainstream tastes it is about as accessible as `War and Peace' written backwards in Esperanto!

Music Album:

  1. Love Lost But Not Forgotten ~ Love Lost But Not Forgotten
  2. The Bitter Well ~ Razor Skyline
  3. The Its! ~ The Its!
  4. Greatest Hits Live ~ John Entwistle
  5. Ausland ~ Fleckfumie
  6. First It Giveth, Pt. 2 ~ Queens of the Stone Age
  7. Best of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. ~ 1910 Fruitgum Company
  8. Like a Girl I Want You to Keep Coming ~ Various Artists
  9. Something Borrowed, Something New ~ Country Joe McDonald
  10. In the Skies ~ Peter Green

Music Album

Music Album

Music

The Best of Roy Ayers: Love Fantasy ~ Roy Ayers, Nuyorican Soul

Centipede: Septober Energy ~ Keith Tippett

Beautiful You ~ John Gross, Billy Mintz

Voice Is a Sax ~ Thomas Heidelberg

Hey Stoopid ~ Alice Cooper

Axé Bahia 2002 ~ Various Artists

Pulse ~ Fake?

Songs for Laughing and Crying ~ Voix du Quebec

Digo O Dives ~ Reinhardt Mandino

Dragon from the West ~ Takahiro Matsumoto