Tracklist

#1 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 1
#2 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 2
#3 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 3
#4 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 4
#5 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 5
#6 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 6
#7 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 7
#8 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 8
#9 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 9
#10 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 10
#11 War With The Evil Power Master, Pt. 11
#12 Blood On The Handle, Pt. 1
#13 Blood On The Handle, Pt. 2
#14 Blood On The Handle, Pt. 3
#15 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 1
#16 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 2
#17 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 3
#18 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 4
#19 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 5
#20 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 6
#21 The Antimatter Formula, Pt. 7
#22 Prisoner of the Ant People
#23 You Are A Monster, Pt. 1
#24 You Are A Monster, Pt. 2
#25 You Are A Monster, Pt. 3
#26 You Are A Monster, Pt. 4
#27 You Are A Monster, Pt. 5
#28 You Are A Monster, Pt. 6
#29 Trouble On Planet Earth, Pt. 1
#30 Trouble On Planet Earth, Pt. 2
#31 Trouble On Planet Earth, Pt. 3
#32 Beyond The Great Wall
#33 Vanished!
#34 Tattoo Of Death
#35 Stranded!
#36 The Phantom Submarine
#37 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 1
#38 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 2
#39 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 3
#40 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 4
#41 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 5
#42 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 6
#43 Mystery Of The Secret Room, Pt. 7
#44 Revenge Of The Russian Ghost, Pt. 1
#45 Revenge Of The Russian Ghost, Pt. 2
#46 Revenge Of The Russian Ghost, Pt. 3
#47 The Cave Of Time, Pt. 1
#48 The Cave Of Time, Pt. 2
#49 The Cave Of Time, Pt. 3
#50 Return To The Cave Of Time
#51 Race Forever, Pt. 1
#52 Race Forever, Pt. 2
#53 The Planet Eater
#54 You Are Microscopic
#55 Invaders From Within, Pt. 1
#56 Invaders From Within, Pt. 2
#57 Invaders From Within, Pt. 3
#58 Smoke Jumper
#59 Surf Monkeys, Pt. 1
#60 Surf Monkeys, Pt. 2
#61 Surf Monkeys, Pt. 3
#62 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 1
#63 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 2
#64 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 3
#65 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 4
#66 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 5
#67 How I Became A Freak, Pt. 6
#68 The Deadly Shadow, Pt. 1
#69 The Deadly Shadow, Pt. 2
#70 The Green Slime, Pt. 1
#71 The Green Slime, Pt. 2
#72 The Green Slime, Pt. 3
#73 Captive!
#74 Hijacked!
#75 Space & Beyond
#76 Forgotten Days
#77 Fire On Ice, Pt. 1
#78 Fire On Ice, Pt. 2
#79 Sand Castle, Pt. 1
#80 Sand Castle, Pt. 2
#81 Dream Trips, Pt. 1
#82 Dream Trips, Pt. 2
#83 Dream Trips, Pt. 3
#84 Dream Trips, Pt. 4
#85 Dream Trips, Pt. 5
#86 Dream Trips, Pt. 6
#87 Through The Black Hole, Pt. 1
#88 Through The Black Hole, Pt. 2
#89 Killer Virus, Pt. 1
#90 Killer Virus, Pt. 2
#91 Killer Virus, Pt. 3
#92 Killer Virus, Pt. 4
#93 Killer Virus, Pt. 5
#94 Killer Virus, Pt. 6
#95 Killer Virus, Pt. 7
#96 Silver Wings, Pt. 1
#97 Silver Wings, Pt. 2
#98 Silver Wings, Pt. 3

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Baker, Aidan / Spectrum Of Distraction

Robotic Empire

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$13.00
ROBO 098
616892012344
Street Date:
January 17th, 2012
Ship Date:
January 9th, 2012
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616892012344
Street Date:
January 17th, 2012

Specifically designed to be played on shuffle and yield a completely unique experience each time, Aidan Baker’s audacious monsterpiece The Spectrum of Distraction takes a nod from Zappa’s technique of “xenochrony” and runs it though the digital age via the shuffle aspect of CD and MP3 players. 98 (!) tracks spanning two discs make for an incredibly varied landscape on each listen; with pieces ranging from just a few seconds to over seven minutes, there is no shortage of diversity. Hallucinatory dreamscapes weave into frantic noise into dubby passages into chilled-out jazz into psychedelic grooves into an oppressive industrial crunch into a hip hop bop into almighty sludge dirges and almost everything else the kitchen sink offers. Start to finish, through and through, nowhere else is it possible to experience anything quite like Baker’s truly enthralling The Spectrum of Distraction. Well-known as a core part of prolific heavyweights Nadja, Baker is backed here by an impressive array of notable drummers who’ve cut their teeth in the likes of Swans, The Jesus Lizard, Slowdive, Killing Joke, Godflesh, Jesu and many more. He began the project in 2009 by soliciting drum tracks and loops, ending up with roughly six hours of material from 18 different percussionists, then recorded guitar and bass to go along with them throughout the winter of 2010. The mass of content was scaled down to the 96 slices (spanning two hours) that appear on this pair of discs. The Spectrum of Distraction is housed in a beautifully illustrated 2xCD gatefold pack; the complete six-hour set of individual sessions is included as a free digital download. THE DRUMMERS: (alphabetical by last name) Aidan Baker (Nadja, ARC, Whisper Room, Infinite Light Ltd.) Richard Baker (ARC, Cymbl) Victor Cirone Andrew Crawshaw (The Silent Ones) Alessandro Curvaia (Shora) Bruno Dorella (OvO, Ronin) David Dunnett (Man Meets Bear, Ça Va Mal) Thor Harris (Swans, The Angels of Light, Shearwater) Steven Hess (Panamerican, Locrian, Ural Umbo, Cleared, Haptic) Kevin Micka (Animal Hospital, Neptune) Mac McNeilly (The Jesus Lizard) Ted Parsons (Swans, Prong, Foetus, Godflesh, Jesu, Killing Joke, Treponem Pal, Teledubgnosis, Necessary, Wordsound Projects) Phil Petrocelli (Great Falls, Jesu, Black Noise Cannon, nov23, The Living Jarboe) Simon Scott (Slowdive) Geoff Summers (Batillus) Jakob Thiesen (Nadja, Whisper Room, Students) Brandon Miguel Valdivia (Picastro, Not the Wind Not the Flag, I Have Eaten the City) H. Walker (Kerretta, Avotor, Mean) Brandon Miguel Valdivia (Picastro, I Have Eaten the City, etc.) H. Walker (Kerretta, Avotor, Mean)