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Tungsten: Await Further Instruction
2001, Brooklyn / Panhandle Music

I need to start this review out with a disclaimer that lets you know 
right up front that this style of music is not something that I care to 
embrace. The reasons for this are very simple. This music makes no 
attempt to achieve any of the criteria that I evaluate music against. 
Now, with this out of the way, this is not to say that there are not 
people that will like this CD, and I can see that.

So, let me first point out the shortcomings of the music on this CD so 
that those of you who, like me, are looking for music with certain 
characteristics can move on to other selections. This music is highly 
repetitive in the rhythm which seems to be strict 4/4 and no more. 
The underlying progressions and riffs are monotonously repeated with 
only the techno-effects offering any variation over these primitive 
underpinnings.

But, the silver lining in this cloud of a CD, is that if you like technoid 
effects and the whole Dr. Who thing, you will probably love this CD. 
Though the underlying base of the music is repetitive to the point of 
madness, the technoid effects and other melodies that pop up with 
guitars, piano, keyboard, etc. are interesting in their unexpected 
flavors. But, the melodies and instrumentation used to deliver them 
are very simplistic, which depending on what angle you look at things 
from, could be good or bad. In terms of feel, this music strikes me as 
the type of music that somebody might listen to while undertaking a 
hallucinogenic voyage down some psychedelic river with constantly 
changing scenery.

In summary, this is not the type of music I will be spending my free 
time listening. But, if you just dropped acid or want to just lay back in 
bed and zone out, this might be the CD for you!

Tracks:
1) Generic Foreign Account
2) Cut It Off
3) Upgrade To Flash Gordon
4) One Minute Eternity I
5) Transcendental
6) I.F.L.W.
7) High Plains Rehab
8) What Hip-Hop Smells Like
9) Stop Liking Your Job
10) Long Hot Naked Winter
11) The Eighties Hustler
12) Who Invited The Secret Weapon?
13) Long Hot Naked Summer
14) It Beats
15) One Minute Eternity II

~ Christopher Ruel ~ www.ChrisRuel.com ~ Chris@ChrisRuel.com ~



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