Friday, February 20, 2009

Fell Venus - "@" (1995 via records)


this album was marketed as a christian industrial album. this is how i came to buy it back in the 90's when it came out.
it is, in fact, neither.  its about as 'industrial' as machines of loving grace, nin, and marilyn manson.  it seems that a ton of stuff came out in the 90's wearing the industrial name which wasn't in fact really industrial.  
tracks 3, 6, 10, 27, 36, and 37 are definitely experimental industrial & ambient (the latter 3 being cd only bonus tracks).  the rest of the album is good rock music with odd vocals, samples, electronic elements and synths, some tracks wearing the 'industrial' label much more comfortably than others.  it is a good one that nobody knows anything about, so please give it a try.
this went out of print AGES ago. aside from a promo cassette with alternate versions of some tracks and remixes this was, sadly, Fell Venus' only release.
btw... track 27 is either an homage to the movie 'true romance' or a declaration of 'i hate this gd movie!' you figure it out :)


1 Nice Guy (2:25)
2 Basket (3:42)
3 Penance (0:17)
4 Pox (3:59)
5 Tie (4:39)
6 Calcutta Buzzsaw (0:34)
7 Hate Disease (3:18)
8 Let Me Go (4:28)
9 Shaped by Fear (3:20)
10 Black (2:56)
11 Untitled (0:08)
12 Untitled (0:12)
13 Untitled (0:08)
14 Untitled (0:07)
15 Untitled (0:07)
16 Untitled (0:11)
17 Untitled (0:06)
18 Untitled (0:17)
19 Untitled (0:06)
20 Untitled (0:06)
21 Untitled (0:12)
22 Untitled (0:10)
23 Untitled (0:08)
24 Untitled (0:21)
25 Untitled (0:10)
26 Untitled (0:17)
27 Untitled (You're So Cool) (1:53)
28 Untitled (0:11)
29 Untitled (0:13)
30 Untitled (0:13)
31 Untitled (0:12)
32 Untitled (0:18)
33 Untitled (0:12)
34 Untitled (0:08)
35 Untitled (0:11)
36 Untitled (1:39)
37 Unnamed Demon (7:02)
*when i ripped this i eliminated all of the 'blank' tracks and shaved off the few minutes of silence of 'unnamed demon'

2 comments:

  1. I used to have this on cassette and totally forgot about it! It really was a good record. Didn't he tour with NIN for a while?

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  2. i have no idea. i've forgotten much of what i knew about him in the first place in the 90's and that wasn't much to begin with. wouldn't have surprised me though.

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