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Electric Skychurch | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 1995)
• Original Release Date: October 10, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Moonshine Music
• ASIN: B000005QB1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,107 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Different and enjoyable spacey tranceish desert grooves, July 26, 2002

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Alex J. Avriette "Alex Avriette" (Arlington, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knowoneness (Audio CD)

Its kind of hard to apply the word "trance" or "grooves" to this album (or indeed this group). I guess their airy spiritualish sound is what turns most people away.

Techno can be trite sometimes, and it really bothers people. If I werent so thrilled with the overall sound of this album, I might count myself among that crowd.

Basically what you've got here is chick vocals over techno tracks that range from very slow and ambient to melodic goa. Only the vocals arent as insipid as you might expect. Its really worth a listen. This is a must-buy if you are into the southern california desert party scene.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great desert trance Ambient Dub grooves which I first heard on a "Jazz" station, October 31, 2006

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Rykre "The Rogue Scholar" (of the vast Western Dystopian Wasteland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knowoneness (Audio CD)

I played this album to death when I first heard "Hipgnosis" on a jazz station. (No, I don't listen to jazz, I was just in someone's car who listens to jazz). Anyway, this song had a pleasant optimistic sound which I decided would become my inspiration track when I feel things are going good for me, and I needed a song to hear to support it. When I bought the CD, I was introduced to even more unique ambient dub instrumentation. When I played "Hipgnosis" and "Deus" on my home stereo, all that rich room-comsuming bass just blew my mind. Electric Skychurch ended up being one of the new artists that I used as my core of exploration of other artists who would be an extension of this sound. Unfortunately, Electric Skychurch ended up being in the midst of various jazz albums so that is definately NOT what I wanted more of. So, I just began reading review's on Amazon and started reading on some comparisons from other purchasers of this Electric Skychurch album. The best sister album to listen to next to this album, is Phutureprimitive's "Sub Conscious" CD. Here, you can throw a little tribal influence into this Ambient Dub experience. However, if you're like me. This still wasn't enough!

This could easily be anyone's favorite CD from Electric Skychurch. But, you know, you can't just allow yourself to be satisfied with this one CD. You see, if you don't have a lot of music like this, than it can seem to become too repetitious and become tiresome rather quickly if you let yourself play this CD too much. Even I don't care to sit through the entire playback of just the one CD. But, I have determined that this music from Electric Skychurch should be played within a mix of other Ambient Dub and other various glitch and IDM related electronica. To just play these 10 songs over and over, end to end, can get dull rather quickly. But if you listen to these songs mixed in with about another hundred IDM instrumentals than you will truly appreciate Electric Skychurch's participation in the overall bigger picture of today's electronic instrumentals.

I have this Electric Skychurch CD shuffling amongst others in my 200 CD carrousel. These tracks by Electric Skychurch are being mixed up with tracks by Autechre, Gescom, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, The Orb, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Sounds From the Ground, Phutureprimitive, Plaid, Boards of Canada, and various other similar artists of which Electric Skychurch belongs with.

I also have these songs and other IDM and Ambient Dub tracks burned onto ATRAC CDR's that is made through the SonicStage program made available only by Sony. (Check out some of Sony's ATRAC CD players and find out why burning hours of your favorite tunes onto a single CDR is better than just loading an ipod with mp3s) Burning hard copies is definitely better than just floating your music in a temporary storage unit like an ipod. (You can make 32 hour CDR's, and as many as you want from all your CD's and mp3s. How many songs can your single ipod hold?)

Anyway, Kudos to you for discovering this Electric Skychurch CD, but now, explore some of the other artists I've mentioned above. You will love this new world of sound that you've discovered. It is more vast than you could ever imagine.

If I ever have a son, I will name him "Deus".

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly, organically, trippy chill-out music, April 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Knowoneness (Audio CD)

Upbeat, but calming, this album is good for chilling out. Organic feeling electronica. Like a warm breeze on a cool summer night. Not perfect though, IMHO. Some of the sounds don't quite seem to match the rest of the ambiance, like the chanting at in the first track