VOLUME Stampone 1995

Discogs

Indie / lo-fi / alternative / experimental bands on the Choke label - Blogatrix

 

Tracklist

1	Acknowledgements	2:29
2	Ardently Wishing	1:15
3	Seedy Presence Revealed	3:18
4	Bionic Hemisphere	4:34
5	The Lure Anglers	0:41
6	Virtuous Caucus	9:48
7	Polemical Ties	1:16
8	Reclusive Bedsitter	1:09
9	Picking Huckleberries	2:14
10	Generally Broken	4:05
11	Founder Of A Fortean Institute	0:52
12	Enormous Chagrin	2:16
13	Famous Long Ago	2:06
14	Never Really The End	6:36
15	Rainbow From Atoms	2:03
16	Protean Relapse	2:17

ROME self titled 1996

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Artist Biography by Sean Cooper

Thrill Jockey instrumental duo Rome are, like many of the acts on the Chicago-based independent label, generally categorized as loose adherents of "post-rock," a period-genre arising in the mid-'90s to refer to rock-based bands utilizing the instruments and structures of music in a non-traditionalist or otherwise heavily mutated fashion. Unlike other Thrill Jockey artists such as Tortoise and Trans-Am, however, Rome draw less obviously from the past, using instruments closely associated with dub (melodica, studio effects), ambient (synthesizers, found sounds), industrial (machine beats, abrasive sounds), and space music (soundtrack-y atmospherics), but fashioning from them a sound which clearly lies beyond the boundaries of each. Perhaps best described as simply "experimental," Rome formed in the early '90s as the trio of Rik Shaw (bass), Le Deuce (electronics), and Elliot Dicks (drums). Based in Chicago, their Thrill Jockey debut was a soupy collage of echoing drums, looping electronics, and deep, droning bass, with an overwhelmingly live feel (the band later divulged that much of the album was the product of studio jamming and leave-the-tape-running-styled improvisation). Benefiting from an early association with labelmates Tortoise as representing a new direction for American rock, Rome toured the U.S. and U.K. with the group (even before the album had been released), also appearing on the German Mille Plateaux label's tribute compilation to French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, In Memoriam. Although drummer Dicks left the group soon after the first album was released, Shaw and Deuce wasted no time with new material, releasing the "Beware Soul Snatchers" single within weeks of its appearance. An even denser slab of inboard studio trickery, "Soul Snatchers" was the clearest example to date of the group's evolving sound, though further recordings failed to materialize. 

Tracklist

1	Leaving Perdition	8:10
2	Intermodal	3:39
3	Lunar White	3:25
4	She's A Black Belt	3:14
5	Rohm	1:09
6	Radiolucence (Version)	5:31
7	Deepest Laws	14:14

ICE Under the Skin 1993

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Artist Biography by John Bush

The darker visions of industrial-strength trip-hop plus death-metal raging equals the intense dub-hop of Ice. A side-project-of-sorts formed around Godflesh's Justin K. Broadrick and God's Kevin Martin (the same lineup comprising Techno Animal), Ice formed in the early '90s with additional bandmembers Dave Cochrane and Alex Buess. The quartet released Under the Skin, their debut LP, in 1993. Broadrick and Martin both kept quite busy with other work -- for Techno Animal, Final, Godflesh, God, and others -- and released only the 1995 remix EP Quarantine. Finally, in 1998, Ice returned with their second album, Bad Blood, and new drummer Lou Ciccotelli, plus collaborators like Sebastian Laws and Scott Harding of New Kingdom, Blixa Bargeld, DJ Vadim, and El-P from Company Flow. 

 

Tracklist

1	Juggernaut Kiss	7:40
2	Survival Of The Fattest	5:59
3	Out Of Focus	9:53
4	.357 Magnum Is A Monster	7:51
5	Skyscraper	8:16
6	The Flood	6:12
7	Stick Insect	7:29
8	Implosion	10:15
9	The Swimmer	13:28