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Remastered reissue of the 2000 album by the UK's unique psychedelic electronic jam-band, packaged in a digipak. Seven tracks. Snapper. 2004.
The Ozrics' new record for 2000 continues their consistently fascinating space explorations into the next millennium. Their lustre has hardly dulled over numerous personnel changes, relentless touring and a back catalog of over 20 albums thus far. Energized with the voltage of a thousand electric generators, armed with banks of keyboards and guitar-triggered effects, and powered by a rhythm section which just kicks, THE HIDDEN STEP puts all of the imagination the band has mustered over their career into another mesmerizing stab of inchoate music. "Tightspin" are the Ozrics going all electronica over everything, yet the spidery threads of guitar and jazz-sharp percussion are hardly lost in the turbo-thrust morass of synths and chugging sequencers. The title track is a rough-and-tumble journey through crumbling Mayan temples, each brick in the wall made of sounds both ancient and familiar--method drumming, interspatial synths, a lumbering dinosaur of a bassline. Once you enter into these British crazies' psychedelic universe, you'll find your senses exploding outward in one big bang.
Ozric Tentacles: Ed (guitar, synthesizer, samples); Jon (flute); Seaweed (synthesizer); Zia (bass); Rad (drums, percussion).
Q (11/00, p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...As ever, deep riffs happily co-exist with sensative flute and chiming bells....imbued with a positive energy that's sometimes hard to resist..." Ozric Tentacles Hidden Step Songs | 1. | Holohedron |
| 2. | Hidden Step, The |
| 3. | Ashlandi Bol |
| 4. | Aramanu |
| 5. | Pixel Dream |
| 6. | Tight Spin |
| 7. | Ta Khut |
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Purchase Hidden Step CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Porcupine Tree In Absentia CD (2002)
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There's a breed of (post-1980s) bands with the same degree of grand rock experimentalism as Pink Floyd and Yes, who simultaneously adhere to the concept of concise songwriting. Porcupine Tree is one such band--their sound is a balance of lush ambient textures, charming vocal harmonies, rock & roll directness, and acoustically- and electronically-generated sounds. Their debut IN ABSENTIA shows all these elements in place, rich with the likely possibility of them becoming a contemporary counterpart to Pink Floyd.
Hailed by Billboard as 'cinematic...simple gorgeous', Porcupine Tree are unquestionably one of the UK's most inspired and inventive rock groups. In Absentia is their eagerly anticipated Lava Records debut. Digipak. 2002.
Recorded at Avatar Studio, New York, New York between March & April 2002.
Porcupine Tree: Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, Gavin Harrison, Steven Wilson.
Personnel: John Wesley (guitar, background vocals); Julian Leaper, Perry Mason, Warren Zielinski, Mark Berrow, Katherine Shave, ...
| | Ozric Tentacles Spice Doubt CD (1998)
Hidden Step
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The first live Ozrics disc since LIVE UNDERSLUNKY, SPICE DOUBT is mostly culled from the band's later '90s catalog, cobbling liberally from ARBORESCENCE ...
| | Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn CD (1997) Digipak
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| | Ozric Tentacles Spirals In Hyperspace CD (2004)
Hidden Step
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Spirals in Hyperspace completes the movement initiated since Ozric Tentacles' comeback: the group is now the sole creature of Ed Wynne, who handles guitar, keyboards, and beat programming. Old travelers like Seaweed, John Egan, Schoo, and even Steve Hillage lend a hand on two or three cuts each, but the group has definitely moved from a fierce live unit to a more clinical studio project -- and it can be heard on this album. The sleek production doesn't hide a high level of predictability and a certain coldness in the execution. Still, Spirals in Hyperspace is a good late-vintage Ozric opus. In fact, anyone would refute all of the above upon listening to the hard-driving opener, "Chewier": fast-paced and exciting, it sounds like something out of Erpland but with a harder, Magna Carta-trademarked edge. It's also an exception: the track features Schoo on real drums, Seaweed, Egan, and Brandi Wynne on glide bass -- the closest to a group effort you'll witness on this album. "Oakum" and "Zoemetra" come close, though, both in terms of extra personnel and genuine drive -- the latter in particular features some great light-speed drumming and a typical Middle Eastern melody. The other pieces fall in the "lukewarm" category, occasionally veering ...
| | Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities CD (1999) Digipak
Hidden Step
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The Ozrics' latest brokerage from beyond is another sizzling trip through time and space. The production is worth the price of admission alone. The band sounds extraordinarily sharp. Guitars are as clear as the finest crystal, synthesizers and other electronic gimcrackery eat up the spaces between both your ears and your speakers, and the drumbeats resound like thunderclaps.
The excursion begins with "Coily," a neat summation of every Tentacular move made over the course of nearly a dozen albums. Drummer Rad works up a propulsive groove that artfully morphs from jazzy fusion to searing rock to techno-funk. Ed Wynne's guitars scorch the landscape like acid rain. And, through it all, synths wheeze, whizz, and whirl, while Zia's ...
| | Porcupine Tree Deadwing CD (2005)
Hidden Step
$10.59
Considering their cinematic scope, it's fitting that the songs on DEADWING were actually inspired by a film script written by Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson. Not that this should come as any surprise to longtime fans who know the UK act's reputation for churning out epic progressive rock so sonically ...
| | Wolle Kriwanek Schwabenrock CD (1998)
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| | Angels Gospel Choir Live And Joyful In Charleston CD (2001)
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| | Jimmy Buffett Captain America CDs (2002)
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| | Alec Empire vs. Merzbow: Live CBGB'S Nyc 1998 CD (2003)
Hidden Step
$13.39
It's not worth the wait. On this set recorded live by Alec Empire with Japanese noise artist Merzbow in 1998, the shredding metallic grind of the previous 15 minutes gives way to a Bronx park electro beat in the middle of "Brooklyn Connection." Why hold your ears all that time just to hear Sugarhill Gang's backing track run through one of Empire's noise boxes? Meanwhile, "The Alliance" barely rages harder than some mid-'90s techno-breaks anthems, which of course Empire used to make back when he was good. At least it's not Atari Teenage Riot, Empire's real claim to fame, pilfered by using three of the most trite words in the vernacular and two "sexy please hate me" women as window dressing. And before you merely dismiss these observations as coming from a hater of quality noisecore, be advised that some of the hardest of Midwest hardcore -- Doormouse or Stunt Rock, for example -- certainly deserves recommendation as an alternative to Live CBGB's NYC 1998. Empire keeps clenching his fist and talking about smashing punk rock. Sebadoh ...
| | Hot Water Music Next What's Next CD (2004)
Hidden Step
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Melodic neo-punk outfit Hot Water Music delivers another tightly constructed album of hard-hitting fare with THE NEW WHAT NEXT. Like 2002's CAUTION, THE NEW WHAT NEXT packs a massive sonic wallop, abetted by a crisp, high-sheen production that lets the group's surging power chords, ringing guitar leads, and jackhammer rhythms come through loud and clear. While ...
| | Es Lebe Der Punk 9 CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Hoehner Wenn's Dir Gut Geht/Le CD (2007) (Import)
Hidden Step
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| | Blurry CD (2008) (Import) Import
Hidden Step
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