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Control Agents
by Geomatic (Serge Marinec and Andrei Vasiljev,
also known as “e. Voice p.”)
Triumvirate Records, 2000
http://www.triumviratemain.com
I received this album before our current “Age of Terror” began. The
nightmarish theme of the album, if you access the website addresses in the
liner notes, was that the Government, specifically the CIA, was planning to
use electronic mind control on ordinary citizens, and in fact had already
used drugs, brainwashing, and other mind-altering techniques on many people,
both voluntarily and involuntarily. The “survivors,” like alien abductees
and "ritual abuse survivors," were now telling their stories.
It took 5,000 deaths and Ground Zero to make public reality even more
nightmarish than these stories. Now we are horribly aware that there WAS a
secret international conspiracy out to destroy us. And though conspiracy
theorists will obviously attribute the megadeath of 9/11 to the American
government’s secret programs (America is always at fault), the reality is
that mind control was already here, long before the CIA, and it doesn't
involve microwave beams or electronic brain stimulation… just twisted
religious and political ideologies, many of them not even American, which
work just as well to brainwash people into mindless violence and suicide
terrorism.
But having said these uneasy things, I must get back to the sounds. Marinec
and Vasiljev came to my attention with their outstanding cut, “Entered
Apprentice,” on a Dark Duck Records compilation from 2000, Ambient
Landscapes 2. The duo, based in the Netherlands, creates an
industrial-Gothic ambient soundtrack using a combination of metallic clanks
and groans, altered voices and sound effects, electronic beeps and squeals,
growling airplane engines, samples of church chant, and drones. They move
this digital dungeon along with a powerful techno beat, echoing in huge
reverb, which gives the listener the feeling of being in a torture chamber
turned into a rave club. They alternate rhythmic cuts (which I think are the
better pieces on the album) with snarling slow ambient. It’s frightening,
and quite trendy, and entirely fitting for our new era, as flaming
electronic noise crashes into a virtual city of darkness.
HMGS rating: 8 out of 10
Hannah M.G. Shapero, EER-MUSIC.com
11/13/01
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