16-17 - When All Else Fails...

16-17 - When All Else Fails... mp3 download flac

Performer: 16-17
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Album: When All Else Fails...
Released: 1989
Style: Experimental

Free Download links

Mp3 zip archive download FLAC RAR archive download WMA Rar archive download
MP3 version ZIP size: 1502 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1909 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1337 mb
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 826
Other Formats: RA DTS VOX ASF MMF FLAC APE

Tracklist

A1 Sneak Preview
A2 Pedestrian Dub
A3 Brownbeaten Beat
B1 Who Planned All This
B2 Clap Trap
B3 Spit It Out!

Notes

Tracks 2, 4, 5 & 6 recorded live on 9/12/1988 at restaurant Hiascheneck, Basel, on a 4-track recorder
Tracks 1 & 3 recorded live on 31/3/1989 at the Kulturfabrik, Wetzikon, on a simple cassette tape deck
Video:

Comments:
Benn
Side one opens with "Sneak Preview" built on an Industrial/Jazz hybrid backing, it has a wild, runaway sound with the saxophone behaving a little like an electrified horse trying to converse in a churning rhythmic white water flood of madness. It reminds me a little of CLOCK DVA circa "White Souls" - the sax & the same synthesized guitar sound, although this is perhaps slightly more structured. "Pedestrian Dub" comes next, opening on the sax (sounding like a cage-full of lemmings hung over an open fire), this loose beginning forms into a beat piece with hard drums trying to batter the sax into some kind of order before submitting & joining in with it's crazy squealing & belching. Some moments are truly inspired, creating a whole new Sound of scattered detritus. "Browbeaten Bert" comes next basing itself on a mad freak-cut drum pattern which might at any moment collapse into chaos or silence. Over this is played the thin wowing guitar sound & the sax, which this time merely fills in, not daring to challange the dense drum dirge. Side two opens with "Who Planned All This?", again visiting the outer limits of madness - the cacophony of sounds which blend together into this crazed, almost Punk form of Jazz, seem to be overall greater than the sum of their parts - the combined pushed-to-the-edge sounds form a fast moving thrash-out which is dense with fascinating sounds, "Clap Trap" follows on the previous track's footsteps, the sax milling around until the drum join in with a dense barriage of machine-like intensity - very impressive. This succumbs to a more varied Sound which sprawls in apeshit Intensity all energy flowing as if limitless. "Spit It Out!" closes the EP/MLP using what sound like distorted vocal samples & voice, all as hysterically wild as the instruments which join in with minimal jabs & pokes. All is built on a slower, less dense drum base, which is deliberately thin & minimal, adding enough to keep the sound nervy. It then zooms off at high speed, under the influence of it's self-Inflicted madness. Raw electronics show through as if burning through their very own wires. The cover burns the eyes in the sane way as the sound burns the ears. This is not my favourite musical form, but I have to admit to being well impressed by this. Its not a music to hear while tired or in any delicate mood, but is so full of twists & turns, it's well-worth seeking out. It reminds me of early BLURT only is perhaps more Anarchic, with a sound much more full & experimental. It was recorded live, suggesting they are worth going to see. Savour a little insanity. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.

Performer: Various
Genre: Electronic
Album: Sneak Preview Volume Three
Released: 1999
Style: Abstract, Industrial, Experimental
Performer: Helmut F. Albrecht
Genre: Non Music
Album: 'Allo Chefe, Alles Paletti!
Released: 1991
Style: Comedy
Performer: Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
Genre: Jazz
Album: Live At Bubba's Jazz Restaurant
Released: 1981
Style: Bop, Hard Bop
Performer: Cottonmouth, Texas
Genre: Rock, Non Music
Album: A Sneak Preview...Anti-Social Butterfly
Released: 1997
Style: Alternative Rock, Spoken Word, Experimental, Avantgarde, Art Rock
Performer: Various
Genre: Rock
Album: Live At The X-Ray (Weekly Tape) #12
Released: 1993
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
Performer: Sneak Preview
Genre: Rock
Album: Rock And Roll Suicide
Released: 1981
Style: Hard Rock
Performer: Harley Young
Genre: Rock
Album: Suburb On Tape 1 (Ghost Trap Single)
Released: 2012
Style: Indie Rock, Acoustic
Performer: Norma Loy
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Album: Live In The Real
Released: 1992
Style: Industrial, Goth Rock, Synth-pop
Performer: Project Pitchfork
Genre: Electronic
Album: Entities Tour
Released: 1993
Style: Electro
Performer: FATO
Genre: Rock
Album: Live Terror / Demo #1 - Split Live Tape
Released: 2005
Style: Grindcore