Fractal Zoom [Single]

Brian Eno | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 1992)
• Original Release Date: August 11, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002M2U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,868 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fractal Zoom [Separate Time Edit]

2. Fractal Zoom [Mary's Birthday Edit]

3. Fractal Zoom [Up River Mix]

4. Fractal Zoom

5. The Roil, The Choke

6. Fractal Zoom [Naive Mix I]

7. Fractal Zoom [Zaire Mix]

8. Fractal Zoom [Naive Mix II]

9. Fractal Zoom [Landed Mix]

10. Fractal Zoom [Bucolic Mix]

11. Fractal Zoom [Separate Time Full Length]

12. Fractal Zoom [Mary's Birthday Mix]

Editorial Reviews

BRIAN ENO Fractal Zoom (1992 US 12-track maxi CD single featuring 11 mixes including Up River Mix Marys Birthday Edit Zaire Mix and Bucolic Mix - over 60 minutes playing time housed in a digipak picture sleeve)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not bad, September 23, 2000

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Sean M. Kelly (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fractal Zoom (Audio CD)

I was intrigued by the concept of Eno and Moby getting together (and this was in 1992 when they did this..Moby's "Go!" was still a major club hit,and I was spinning it at clubs then, but very few people knew who he was otherwise) to do some work, and in some places ("Fractal Zoom" is the only track, but mixed and whatnot a dozen or so ways, Mody involved on more than 1/2 of them) it works out nicely.

Ultimately, the 2 could have spent more time together, perhaps helping Eno get a better basic track made from which to base these remixes.

For Eno fans and Moby fans, this cd is certainly a curio, but not as groundbreaking as it could have been..I would love to see them try to do this project again, now that Moby is supersaturating the AOM charts- maybe it will help Eno gain a new fan base who can respect his music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't be put off by the label "single", April 11, 2006

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G. Faville "gfav611" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fractal Zoom (Audio CD)

This CD is made of many different remixes of the song "Fractal Zoom" off of Eno's Nerve Net album, plus the inclusion of the song "The Roil, The Choke" which is a superb construction of electronic melancholia. Even though the disc is labeled as a "CD Single" it contains, if I recall correctly, 65-70 minutes of music.

The song is remixed about every way you could think, from small rearrangements of sounds to complete destruction of the original into slow ambience. So even though the same song is listed, many of them sound nothing alike. For the money of a used CD, which is apparently the only way to get it, it's definitely worth it if you're an Eno fan. I was not aware that Moby had anything to do with this disc, since this came out in 1992 and I wasn't even aware of Moby's existence until his 1995 "Everything is Wrong." I will have to go back and look at my Fractal Zoom case now and listen with a new perspective.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eno's take on minimalism, January 9, 2003

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Nathan J. Goldberg (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fractal Zoom (Audio CD)

I didn't know what to expect with this cd. Eno tries everything! I have always loved his catchy hooks, infectious rhythms and thought-provoking (or mind-numbing) lyrics.

This cd is not ambient music, and it is not some form of heady satirical/lyrical rock. What it comes closest to is his take on minimalism, as apparently repetitive patterns are laid out, but slowly transform in different ways (not so repetitive after all!). It isn't dance music exactly, since it isn't that intense -- but it isn't entirely vacuous either. In my opinion, it's a welcome in-between: music to drift in and out of, while doing something else. I can sink into it at moments, or let it go on without me. It sparks my imagination without dominating my thoughts, and that's just what I was hoping for when I bought it.