{ 10 Year Anniversary Edition } Electric Third Rail EP

by OCTAVIUS

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    The Wire #199
    Octavius and partner 4AM commit moving ambient collages to tape on this terrifying EP. 4AM’s production is impressively thick and swirly. Haunted beats occasionally survive the noisy squalor, though the landscape is generally dominated by fragments of feedback and rigid sheets of static. The distorted rhythms sound like genius colliding with heavy layers of sound---think Third Eye Foundation or Spooky’s “Synthetic Fury” with more tactful and economical stabs at tempo. On “A Cure,” a female vocal jigsaws beautifully alongside the jagged edges of crackly white noise. Octavius’ vocals have a bit too much conviction to be called ‘MCing.’ At times, it sounds like Ian Curtis fronting Merzbow, other times it’s Tricky bleeding. Though nobody should be allowed to use the word ‘deconstruction’ that often in 40 minutes, his paranoia and pessimism complement the release’s overall claustrophobia.
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credits

released 24 August 2000
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Electric Third Rail was produced, mixed and engineered by 4AM and William Marshall in Fresno, CA. Additional mix assistance by Taron Barefield.

John Wilson of Meat Beat Manifesto provides bass, guitar, theremin and erhu throughout.

Art direction by William Marshall.

Mastered by Eric Peters.

Executive produced by Gary Rivera.

The copyright in this sound recording is owned by C N T R L
Unauthorized distribution is a violation of applicable laws.

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