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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This appropriately titled album offers some of the darkest, most chilling, drum and bass music you are likely to hear, whilst remaining 'intelligent' to the core. With an air of evil suspense reminiscent of a classic Lalo Schifrin movie soundtrack, subsonic basslines and complex tightly controlled rhythms; the listener is taken on a nightmarish journey down a very dark misty alley! If you hark back to the menace of the Grooverider 'Prototype Years' or more recent offerings from Dom+Roland you will love 'Exocise The Demons'.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Okay, so the main talking point of this album appears to be it's darkness or lack of it. I'd like to testify that this album does succeed to a point in setting a chilling soundscape.
The opening track, Call and Response which interestingly formed one of the most exciting musical cues in the movie Blade appears in all it's glory here and is probably one of the most sinister tracks on the album. It clocks in as around seven minutes of that wierd modulating keyboard riff, piercing background drone, minimalist bass, confusingly off kilter breakbeats and industrial crashes. Probably the albums second best track in my humble opinion. My current favourite (without wishing to indicate a lack of deep-reaching knowledge of the album) is track two, Mind Weaver which is resplendent beneath a sleazy overdriven bass sound, and a lovely cheesy synth line also contains the alternatively driving/technical beats which make up most of this album.
And there my problem lies, sort of. Tracks like Technical Warfare and Love and Hate kick in in similar fashion to stronger tracks on the album (such as the first two), however don't have the hooks to back them up. Another reviewer said this album was experimental and confused. I disagree with that, there is very little sonic experimentation here and the darkness is often achieved solely by minimalist arrangements. Beat-wise too what you are dealing with here is tight, well produced but basically by the numbers breakbeatage. If you want experimental go for 4Heros 2 Pages album (I refer of course to disk 2).
While nothing on Exorcise the Demons is bad, you often feel like there is a bit of random drum synth fiddling going on to flesh things out.
ETD works very well as a soundscape album but outside the club environment, on your stereo at home there are many more entertaining drum and bass albums to be had.
As a footnote if you like this album I can strongly recommend you buy Gyral by Scorn. It's not really D and B though but similar in feel and better realised.
The opening track, Call and Response which interestingly formed one of the most exciting musical cues in the movie Blade appears in all it's glory here and is probably one of the most sinister tracks on the album. It clocks in as around seven minutes of that wierd modulating keyboard riff, piercing background drone, minimalist bass, confusingly off kilter breakbeats and industrial crashes. Probably the albums second best track in my humble opinion. My current favourite (without wishing to indicate a lack of deep-reaching knowledge of the album) is track two, Mind Weaver which is resplendent beneath a sleazy overdriven bass sound, and a lovely cheesy synth line also contains the alternatively driving/technical beats which make up most of this album.
And there my problem lies, sort of. Tracks like Technical Warfare and Love and Hate kick in in similar fashion to stronger tracks on the album (such as the first two), however don't have the hooks to back them up. Another reviewer said this album was experimental and confused. I disagree with that, there is very little sonic experimentation here and the darkness is often achieved solely by minimalist arrangements. Beat-wise too what you are dealing with here is tight, well produced but basically by the numbers breakbeatage. If you want experimental go for 4Heros 2 Pages album (I refer of course to disk 2).
While nothing on Exorcise the Demons is bad, you often feel like there is a bit of random drum synth fiddling going on to flesh things out.
ETD works very well as a soundscape album but outside the club environment, on your stereo at home there are many more entertaining drum and bass albums to be had.
As a footnote if you like this album I can strongly recommend you buy Gyral by Scorn. It's not really D and B though but similar in feel and better realised.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
the first track "call & response" justifies buying this album alone, it's a dark moody masterpiece (also used briefly in the film "BLADE"). the rest of the tracks are a little formulaic, but good nonetheless.
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nowhere near
I bought this on the strength of 'Controlled Developments' instead of heeding the warnings of other dissatisfied listeners. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2004
A Major Let Down
I was looking forward to hearing this and listening to some dark side beats. But I feel as if I've been let down very badly. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2001
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