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Old 03-05-2010, 08:18 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Tracklist:
1. Slo Down
2. Why (interlude)
3. The Christian Logic
4. Come Alive
5. Romantic Filth (Thesubconcioustipperipoff)
6. Your Creator
7. World of Confusion
8. The Devil’s Logic
9. The Great and Terrible (Revelation)
10. Knock ‘em Out

Released 2004

Son of the Electric Ghost is the pseudonym of the IDM / Breaks producer known as Bil Bless and other aliases. You can see by the album and its track names that there is a fascination with the occult/religions going on here. More importantly, though, this is a great electronic album. It has a distinct darkness with an equally distinct brightness. This sounds like good and evil combined to make an album of danceable downtempo beats decorated with threatening evil-sounding vocal samples and lots of instrumental flourishes. The album’s theme reflects the dual nature of mankind in which exists a capacity for great evil and suffering as well as transcendent joy. This is Intelligent Dance Music that thinks about Existentialism.

The opener, ‘Slo Down’ starts the album with an eclectic, semi-bucolic feeling as a beat forms from a slice of a guitar riff, steel drums and a bunch of other instruments and digital sounds. This track is a relatively slow one. It induces head-nodding but it’s not quite dancefloor material. A lot of the rest of the album is, though. The next song, ‘The Christian Logic’ turns up the tempo to dancing level and also gets cut up into various experiments with breakbeats. Later on we hear ‘The Devil’s Logic’ which is quite similar but includes more sinister sounding effects. On top of those songs, SOTEG plays with different styles throughout the album. Usually the songs amount to uptempo breaks mixed with a lot of experimental interludes, always with an eye on the apocalypse. ‘The Great and Terrible (Revelation)’ poses a question with demonic vocoder vocals: What are you going to do when the end of the world comes? Are you going to make an excuse?

For me this album is important IDM on the level of the masters. In other words; It never gets dull. The combination of my fascination with mysticism and love of interesting electronic music has made this a lasting favorite. And remember..
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