Full on Night / Precise Temperature of Darkness

Rachel's | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Quarter Stick
• ASIN: B00004SQWL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,802 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Full On Nigth (Recension Mix)

2. The Precise Temperature Of Darkness

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new direction for Rachel's?, May 23, 2000

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Nick Storring (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full on Night / Precise Temperature of Darkness (Audio CD)

Their revision of "Full On Night" is hopefully indicitave of a new direction. To me it's like a combination of previous Rachel's material as well as a more edgy Godspeed You Black Emperor (Slow Riot...) feel, while still also incorporating more of a free-fusion jazz element (think of the Jaco Pastorius, Bruce Ditmas, Pat Metheny and Paul Bley collaboration). As for the Matmos material--reminds me slightly of Autechre's EP7 but with more of the typical DAT tape frittery associated with "glitch" groups... nothing special but obviously worth a listen! Anyway this disc is worth picking up just for "Full On Night"!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Frontier?, June 29, 2000

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Dirk Hugo (Cape Town, South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full on Night / Precise Temperature of Darkness (Audio CD)

Wow! Rachel's have been dancing the line between hardcore classicism and the impetus of rock music since their inception, but never as well realised as this. "Full On Night" is a reworking of a track off their debut "Handwriting" album that drifts seamlessly between episodes of grace, poise, abandon and downright hedonism. The Matmos re-interpretation is a lengthy exploration of textures that is way up there with the finest that Autechre and Pole have had to offer. Crucial!

4.0 out of 5 stars Rachel's is Perfect , Matmos Halfway, Averages Out to 4, October 12, 2003

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Da Freakin Hammer (Cary, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full on Night / Precise Temperature of Darkness (Audio CD)

Two cuts on this EP. Rachels with a version of Full on Night from Handwriting, their first release. They are so...complete-- that they scare me. Lush, redolent, edgy, supple, evocative... I have never made an unequivocal statement like this, but I've been around a long time and I've listened to a lot of underground/post rock music-- and before the mid-nineties, there was never a band (ensemble) like this: As recording artists, they have no equal.

Matmos....has potential, but this odd pairing with Rachel's seems kind of unfair, juxtaposing a dry, interesting band with what I won't scruple to call the greatest American alternative studio band of all time.