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COLLEY, JOE - Psychic Stress Soundtracks

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Antifrost afro2029 Release Year: 2005 Note: back in stock this suspenseful, "mechanical noise" filled second solo album under his 'real' name, falling behind all genres and still to discover!... "a handful of surplus electronics, motors, and mechanical objects have been rewired to exaccerbate their collapse. Within the hiss of circuits meltings and gears jamming, Colley coaxes a toxic array of hums, clicks, pings, and drones, and in turn, sculpts them into an amazing set of electro-shock minimalism..." [Jim Haynes for Aquarius Rec.] Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Neues Werk des Kaliforniers mit fünf Stücken seines sehr konkreten, minimalen und dronigen „mechanic noise“, spannend arrangiert mit cuts, Geräuschen, extremen Frequenzen, aber nie in wirklich harsche Bereiche ausbrechend..." [Drone Rec. info] " 'For those who gave up too soon', it says on the cover, and I wonder who they are, as Joe Colley doesn't tell us. Over the years, Colley came from a background in industrial music under the banner of Crawl Unit and his own Povertech label, but since more recent times, he solely uses his own name. Maybe those who gave up too soon as those who couldn't stand his 'Psychic Stress Soundtracks'? Music made to work on the senses aren't a new thing since John Duncan's 'Stress Chamber' or Mark Bain's similar container. But on a CD one might be a bit lost as to the psychic effects. Colley offers five pieces of extreme sound frequencies, with very high end and low end sounds, chopped up into small rhythms and argumented with larger chunks of more ongoing sounds and crackles of toys being smashed with a contactmicrophone. It's a very physical soundtrack, as the music goes from soft to quite loud all the time. Maybe Colley's soundtrack is meant to be used at Guatanamo Bay (which, as I recently saw on TV uses 'Subhuman' by Throbbing Gristle in their training program - that wouldn't crack me)? Played through headphones on a loud volume and on repeat for a couple of hours, this would maybe crack the faint at heart. Maybe Colley makes a comment on that? His music is definitely the missing link between die-hard noise and a much more intelligent approach to sound and that alone makes this into a well-enjoyable release. Excellent noise - especially when not played under duress.” [FdW / Vital Weekly] “Once known as Crawl Unit, the Californian misanthrope Joe Colley has never been as prolific as many of his contemporaries such as Francisco Lopez, Daniel Menche, and The Hafler Trio. While this is not to say that none of those artists exhibit much in the way of quality control (quite the contrary!), Joe Colley's constant fussiness coupled with a self-identification with failure lends his recordings to readings as these fringe elements of sound research touching on psychological issues into the nether regions of the human psyche as well as mechanical engineering gone awry. It's been a little over two years since Colley's previous album Desperate Attempts At Beauty, and we have to say that Psychic Stress Soundtracks is a step up from that impressive piece of work. Refreshingly devoid of digital effects and techniques, the Psychic Stress Soundtracks feature five lengthy compositions in which a handful of surplus electronics, motors, and mechanical objects have been rewired to exaccerbate their collapse. Within the hiss of circuits meltings and gears jamming, Colley coaxes a toxic array of hums, clicks, pings, and drones, and in turn, sculpts them into an amazing set of electro-shock minimalism confounded by numerous compositional detours and ruptures. This is well worth checking out!” [Aquarius]