Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table
Artist: Nurse With Wound
Community Score: 7.00

The debut Nurse With Wound album lies halfway between the more tuneless explorations of Krautrock and the new industrialism practiced by Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Across three lengthy tracks, obtuse guitar freak-outs are used to frame distorted synthesizers and mostly rhythm-less drum machines. Though it frequently defies easy... Read More

Actual Sounds + Voices
Artist: Meat Beat Manifesto
Community Score: 5.50

Fatboy Slim, the Orb, the Chemical Brothers, and easily another half-dozen acts must all have this CD under their pillows at night. Jack Dangers has been saving up ingredients for this rich stew of electronic noodles and scrambled percussion. His band's previous effort, Subliminal Sandwich, was half as good and twice as long (a double CD), but... Read More

The Water Album
Artist: System 7

As its title alone indicates, Water was released as the counterpart to Fire, consisting of remixes by Hillage and Giraudy of nearly every track on the original album, plus one new number, all flowing into one another as essentially one lengthy, disc-long composition. Whereas Fire was much more of an upfront dance release -- though admittedly... Read More

777
Artist: System 7

For their long-awaited System 7 album debut, Hillage and Giraudy received help from several high-profile figures -- Paul Oakenfold, Derrick May, and Orb-associates including Dr. Alex Paterson, Thrash, Youth, and Andy Falconer. The truth is, despite the many beats added to Hillage's space-rock explorations, they still sound remarkably similar to... Read More

Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)
Artist: Praxis
Community Score: 9.50

Apart from an early experimental 12" that has little to do with the later records, Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) was the first release of producer Bill Laswell's Praxis project, which he conceived and constructed around mystery guitar virtuoso Buckethead. Beautifully packaged (fascinating artwork by James Koehnline, freaky photography by... Read More