Exorcise the Demons

Source Direct | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B00000I7WY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,703 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Call & Response

2. Mindweaver

3. Haunted

4. Technical Warfare

5. Love & Hate

6. Capital D

7. Dubstar

8. Wanton Conduct

9. Concealed Identity

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definite grower, December 18, 1999

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Frans Buijsen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exorcise the Demons (Audio CD)

I bought this CD right when it came out, liking Source Direct's earlier stuff. I was originally a bit disappointed, if only because it repeated two tracks from their earlier releases, and because it didn't seem all that special. But after repeated listening, the tracks really grow on you, with their great rhythm parts, always weaving around the eery bass-line melodies, and the "special effects" puncutuating everything. That may sound awfully eclectic, and Source Direct is certainly not for those who have never listened to any jungle before. Still, it's one of the albums that can bear close listening and improve.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Controlled Developments!, April 20, 2000

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Frederick Reyes (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exorcise the Demons (Audio CD)

I read a review by another listed and I must say, "you are totally false!" I dont remember who it was exactly, but they said that Source Direct was far from a "Dark Alternative" music span. Well, I can say that I agree with the fact that "Exorcise the Demons" isnt as "dark" as "Controlled Developments", but it all depends on the listener. What is dark to one person may not be dark to the other! Let people decide on the album themselves and stop trying to tell people what is dark and what isnt! Aside from the fact that they put 2 tracks on this album off of their last album, the album is worth the buy! One track that does not tickle my fancy: "Dubstar"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top-Notch..., November 4, 2000

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funktion (The Synaptic Gap) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Exorcise the Demons (Audio CD)

Photek protegees Phil Aslett and Jim Baker had been prowling the darker-than-dark fringes of drum n' bass for years before letting loose 1998's ferocious EXORCISE THE DEMONS. Like their meticulous mentor, Source Direct's break-charmers acquit themselves admirably. Their first album is a definitive slab of darkcore intensity.Source Direct is fairly single-minded in the pursuit of thick, sinister atmosphere, yakuza-style bass, and melodic dark-matter. The relentlessly slicing and stabbing stainless-steel breakbeats would be mentally debilitating if not for the varied--and somewhat amusing--textures deftly woven into such tension-breakers as "Love & Hate" and "Dubstar." Source Direct's production is sterling throughout. Through sheer force of talent and vision, EXORCISE THE DEMONS craftily outsmarts the album-jinx that continues to bedevil even the duo's most club-savvy peers.