Voyeur

Noise Unit | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B0009G3BJC
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,772 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars People don't seem to realize there are more Noise Unit Albums..., August 16, 2005

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Toxic Excess (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Voyeur (Audio CD)

This is a particularly excellent disk and I'm delighted to see them working under this name once again, but many people below seem under the mistaken impression that "Drill" was their first outing as Noise Unit. This is totally incorrect. The first one, "Grinding Into Emptiness" was a pairing of members of FLA and Klinik (from Belgium) on Chicago's legendary Wax Trax label and much more minimalist and experimental in tone, and my own favourite is still "Response Frequency," which never got a domestic release and has a very sinister element to it. My copy is on Antler-Subway Records from Belgium. Then there was "Strategy of Violence," which is harsher (like "Drill") and I never cared for as much.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slighlty dark, edgy, pleasing, hot...., September 18, 2006

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Ryan Clinite "Ryan" (West Hollywood, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Voyeur (Audio CD)

This album is one of the rare few that has lived up to my expectations. I've been diving head on into psychedelically inclined music for the last few years now; starting off with Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection, Juno Reactor, Hallucinogen, etc...and this album lives up to the clean style I've come to expect from excellent psychedelic music, but has a flavor very much still its own.

The album seems very Sci-Fi friendly to me. It has an overall dark metallic feeling, low vibrations with a rhythmic pulse that is soft and deep. This is not the rave music that some other groups (like Astral Projection) border on. Instead it's steady, cold frequencies with a lot of high quality mixing involved. Perfect chill music, similar to portions of the Matrix soundtrack. There is a distinctly `quasi human' feeling to the album...like it was meant for a time in the future when the different between humans and machines gets difficult to distinguish.

All in all, this is a hot album for Psychedelic fans, or even for people who want something with a slightly darker cool chill feeling. 5 stars all the way!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Electronic Music for the Masses, July 26, 2005

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Ambient Guru (Vancouver, B.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Voyeur (Audio CD)

I'll start by saying that I have not heard in great detail the other 2 Noise Unit albums. Though I am familiar with all of Leebs/Fulbers Delerium, Intermix and Synaesthesia projects I have generally strayed away from their harder, more industrial sound. Other then Front Line Assembly's last outing Civilization I've never been a big fan of FLA.

So, when I first heard about a new Noise Unit album from Leeb/Peterson I was not really all that excited. That was until I heard some samples. They sounded intriguing and it wet my appetite to hear more. After much ado to find "Voyeur", I was finally able to track the sucker down!

As soon as I walked out of the store, I placed the CD in my discman, took a stroll along the seawall and for 59 mins was taken for a ride far away from this chaotic world.

WOW... is all I can say! I'm even at a lose to describe what this album sounds like. There is a lot of ambience mixed with heavy beats at times and the occasional decoded voice. The production on this album is also unbelievable! There are a lot of sounds and layers happening all at once and it feeds the senses immensely!

Highlights include the mesmerizing opening track Illicit Dreams, with its decoded vocals, rumbling bass and heavy synths. Another great track is Surveillance with its dreamy, long intro... it feels at moments like your in a nostalgic dream. These tracks are only topped by the closing song Monolith which is simply epic.

Though the album still has some industrial roots and sounds, fans of Deleriums instrumental work, Intermix or Synaesthesia will want this album!

Like a previous reviewer stated I hope Leeb/Peterson are smart enough to continue Noise Unit into the future, it would be a real shame if they didn't.....