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Front Line Assembly > Comatose
SPV 056-43863.
Tracklist:
[01] COMATOSE Valium 15mg [04:33]
[02] COMATOSE Ketamin 45mg [06:50]
[03] OBLIVION prev. unreleased [07:10]
[04] COMATOSE Prozac 75mg [07:35] remixed by Eatstatic
Credits:
All tracks written by Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson. Engineered by Greg Reely, mastered at Bernie Grundman, mastering by Brian Gardner. Published by Edition Sub Terranean / Warner Chappell. Except * co-written & produced by M. Pepler at Sfear studios, published by The Ultimate Publishing Company. Coverdesign by P.I.X.A.R./MERAN.
Review
Reely is back!
Choosing "Comatose" as the new single from the "Flavour of the Weak" release was a logical move for me. On my review I've made for the album, I've mentioned the idea that that song could become a favorite among the fans. So I'm happy to discover that new mini-release, to see how that song evolved since the parution of the album. Well, the main thing that lacked on the album was the production quality, the "magical touch" of Greg Reely, who is still for me a FLA member : without him the band is not the same. Here, his influence is noticeable : better sounding, subtle additions and manipualtions here and there that does make the difference. The first remix (Valium 15mg) is a kind of shortened and reconstructed version of the song, nice work but of little interest, but the second one (Ketamin 45mg) is, for me, the real version that should have been on the album. New voice processing, more dynamic use of samples, better use of stereophony, better use of aural bandwidth, and many interesting manipulations of the sounds, that makes the result more FLA-ish than the original. Now the album sounds poor besides this...
The "Prozac 75mg" remix, made by Eatstatic, is a great one. The original song almost disapeared in that evolvement. Sounds like awesome "industrial break-beat techno" that is not boring, not too trendy, very original. But people around me who know well Eatstatic do not recognize the style of the band in that mix. Sound quality could have been better.
How about "Oblivion", that previously unreleased track? Yep, again, here is another of those B-Side songs that makes me buying all singles from FLA... Wonderful experimental instrumental cut that begins slowly with noisy ambiance, then evolving in a serie of rhythm-and-noise techno experiences that pleased me a lot, in the vein of the instrumental songs on the Flavour album, but somehow different (because of Reely's touch?).
Reviewed by Bernard Bastien
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