Swirly Termination (Dig) [Original recording remastered]

Ozric Tentacles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Snapper Classics UK
• ASIN: B0000AKXFM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,100 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Steep

2. Pyoing

3. Waldorfdub

4. Yoy Mandala

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahh!!, February 14, 2005

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alex bushman (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swirly Termination (Dig) (Audio CD)

The typical Ozrics experience with some great jazz, atmospheric reggae-rock and so forth. Personally, I love the end track. Not quite as hard as other releases, but they still bring the noise in the keyboard department to make up for it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now that the race for writing the first review is over..., July 17, 2000

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Listener (BayArea, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Swirly Termination (Audio CD)

...I've given Swirly enough listenage to be able to give its seven tracks a fair shakedown.

Steep, while not a mindblowing tune, is certainly a fascinating opener. The acoustic, eastern foundation that lasts the entire 3 minutes is comparable to the Chinatype ('Swish) or Ch'ai? (Waterfall) sound.

Space Out is very much akin to its sibling on Spice Doubt, but preferable due to it being a bit shorter and cleaner. In all honesty though, the only way to hear this song is live... the Tentacles' rendition of this song at the Wetlands in NYC (7/99) was conquering.

Pyoing is thoroughly Arborescent. I felt like I was listening to long lost track from this earlier album when the synth started rolling in over the driving drum and bass lines. The last 1.5 minutes of the track are an ambient outro, very Arbor..

Far Dreaming is quite masterfully written--one of those tracks that offers enough guitar/synth distraction for one side of your brain, while the other is trying to figure out what time sig Rad and Zia are playing.

Waldorfdub...recreational reggae filler.

Kick 98. Of course this is going to have the same guitar riff, it wouldn't be Kick Muck without it. Ed's sound is, however, quite changed---thinner and more raw, and somewhat more blazing. While the original version remains my favorite Oz tune, this track gets better with each listen.

Yoy is the Ozric catalog. ~12 minutes of everything they have to offer from reggae to rips.

Swirly is a fine album, and actually was recorded before Spice Doubt and Waterfall Cities, which is interesting when analyzing the evolution of the boys' sound.. While John is a bit scarce on the album, he has a fine solo on Pyoing. Fine.

Sorely missed here is a title track, but I wouldn't want to reduce the Ozrics to a formula...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good listen ...... good tunes!, July 23, 2007

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Pamela L. Butcher "pet pamster" (Pahrump, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Swirly Termination (Dig) (Audio CD)

The boys from Oz never seem to disappoint. Pleased with everything I've heard from them so far.