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structurefall - and now, your top albums for the year...
...of 1997. as most of you are vaguely aware, i'm permanently trapped 10 years in music's past, so me doing a top albums list for this year presents a bit of a challenge, but i'm all up in 1997, so here goes:
1997 was a sorta weird transitional year for industrial music- in the US, coldwave was just on its way out and the electronica and drum'n'bass influences that would come to define 1998 were just making their way in. in europe, the bands that would come to define futurepop were just starting to make some serious noise and the top labels of the mid-90s, like zoth ommog and offbeat, had already passed their peaks. here's what came out of it, from best to least-best:
Top 10 Industrial Albums of 1997
Honorable Mentions:
Best Non-Industrial Albums of 1997:
i'll try to come up with a list of things i like that actually came out in 2007 later.
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1997 was a sorta weird transitional year for industrial music- in the US, coldwave was just on its way out and the electronica and drum'n'bass influences that would come to define 1998 were just making their way in. in europe, the bands that would come to define futurepop were just starting to make some serious noise and the top labels of the mid-90s, like zoth ommog and offbeat, had already passed their peaks. here's what came out of it, from best to least-best:
Top 10 Industrial Albums of 1997
- Numb - Blood Meridian
easily one of the best electro-industrial albums of all time. amazing and dense production, some of the best vocal performances of dave collings' career with the band, fluid and well defined atmosphere, and memorable songs. hard to say whether i personally enjoyed blood meridian or the next album, language of silence, more, but blood meridian was probably a lot more influential. - Unit:187 - Loaded
completely pure coldwave with all of the ideas and traditions of the genre boiled down to the essence. Their eponymous first release suffered from poor production and directionless songwriting, but loaded was a top-notch performance all the way through. "nothing" kinda sums it up- it's an incredibly emotional song with lyrics about being completely detached from emotion. the stark contrast between the super-duper heavy guitars and the retro-ish 808 drums create a unique vibe for the whole album, and the b-52s cover prevents the piece in its entirety from seeming too pretentious or over-serious. - Acumen Nation - More Human Heart
more human heart was recorded right around the time that DJ? acucrack was putting out their first totally original recordings, and the more modern and non-industrial influences really show in the programming. the prior acumen release, territory = universe, was clearly trying to be an old school wax trax!-style industrial disc and wound up sounding largely derivative, but more human heart is distinctive, varied, and features some of the band's best songs, most notably the opening track, "ventilator". - C-Tec - Darker
a pseudo-followup to 1995's cyber-tec project with a different lineup. C-tec is easily the best work jean-luc demeyer did during 242's long hiatus, and the only worthwhile thing marc heal ever did outside of cubanate. darker features vocals by both, a lot of unusual song structures, and some seriously unusual production with enormous low end and almost completely empty mids through the entire disc. - Wumpscut - Embryodead
neither as influential or as cohesive as the earlier bunkertor 7, but still an incredible album that maintained and expanded on the best aspects of wumpscut's sound and atmosphere. i love the title track and "down where we belong", and even the songs that don't stand up on their own, like "womb" and "angel" (which has awful lyrics, but that's another issue) do a great job of holding the album together. unfortunately this disc also has "war", which is just all-around terrible, but other than that, i love it. - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - A Crime for All Seasons
a return to harder and less-discoish sounds after hit and run holiday. despite a weak single ("sexy sucker"), crime for all seasons stands up as a coherent album and is probably the most memorable thing they've done since 13 above the night. - Deathline Int'l - Arashi Syndrom
this was the last DLI album with shawn brice, and also the first disc thatthecount0 did any programming on. strong emphasis on the tribal drum sounds, weird distinctive production, and great performances. the two covers on the disc, "wild boys" and "troops of tomorrow", seem to be the most well-remembered tracks on the disc, but "my friend is dead", "you can't stop me", and "we believe" are all great classic coldwave tracks that (watch, side-liners, as i invoke electrofreak) deserve more attention. - Laibach - Jesus Christ Superstars
not really one of my favorite laibach albums, but definitely one of the more interesting ones conceptually. by far their most guitar-heavy album, probably influenced strongly by rammstein, who by this point had admitted to lifting heavily from laibach's motifs themselves. unusually, most of the tracks deal with religion, rather than politics. the laibach take on juno reactor's "god is god", which was actually released prior to the juno reactor version, is probably the most memorable. - Front Line Assembly - FLAvour of the Weak
FLA's much maligned "electronica" album, which lifted heavily from bands like photek and µ-ziq for percussion. this was the band's first album without rhys fulber since he'd joined the band, and had a much, MUCH different feel than their prior full-length, hard wired, and i think people were probably reacting badly to that. definitely not one of their stronger works, but as an independent entity still a great album, prefiguring a lot of what happened in american industrial in the next couple of years. - Noisex - Over and Out
a completely and utterly weird album that, in an awkward and somehwat indirect fashion, helped begin what would eventually come to be called powernoise. almost every track on the album seems to be more of an idea stretched out over four minutes than an actual song, and some of the ideas aren't particularly successful, but a few key tracks, like phalaenopsis and united, really hold it together. as far as truly difficult but -coherent- albums go, this is a favorite of mine.
Honorable Mentions:
- Individual Totem - Mind Sculptures Flesh
one of the last great electro-industrial albums. kinda like a combination of early informatik, haujobb, and gridlock. good times. - Biopsy - Cervix State Sequences
it's like swamp terrorists meets the beastie boys! literally- they actually sample the beastie boys song "sure shot". HOW CAN YOU GO WRONG. - Noise Unit - Drill
really amazing sonic textures and engaging rhythms. definitely the best noise unit album until voyeur, but would have strongly benefited from a few more distinct "songs", ala strategy of violence.
Best Non-Industrial Albums of 1997:
- David Bowie - Earthling
still my favorite later-era bowie album. the single, "little wonder", is totally awesome. amazing and weird guitar work by reeves gabrels all the way through, great mix of modern electronics and production with bowie's songwriting remaining outstanding. - Firewater - The Ponzi Scheme
contains two of my all-time favorite songs... well, pretty much at all, "whistling in the dark" and "knock 'em down". if you do not already own this album, you are a DAMN FOOL. seriously, this band is infallible. so is cop shoot cop. this disc is much less circus-y than man on the burning tightrope, and is probably the best place to start with them. - Information Society - Don't Be Afraid
this was kurt's solo album, produced by steven seibold of hate dept. it has a little bit of an industrial-ish edge to it from the production, and is definitely darker than the rest of the insoc oeuvre, but remains poppy and accessible throughout. the cover of "are friends electric" by gary numan that we played at the show in march was from this disc. - Monaco - Music for Pleasure
a project of peter hook, bassist from joy division and new order. unlike revenge, his prior project, which was a huge mess for the most part, the first monaco disc is a great pop album with a lot of strong britpop influences showing but maintaining the distinctive hook bass leads.
i'll try to come up with a list of things i like that actually came out in 2007 later.
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Also 1997 was the same year that ant-zen released Imminent Starvation's Human Dislocation, P·A·L's m@rix, and Synapscape's Rage which I think are better and had more of an impact on the sound of powernoise but noisex gets the credit cause they coined the term.
but i was never even a fan of noisex...
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Crystal Method - Vegas
Aqua - Aquarium
10 years since the Monaco album came out already?
My,
I loved that one, heard it for four weeks every morning and evening when driving to work back when I used to setup the demo furniture in a furniture store in my summer vacation from uni to pay to go to Berkeley later.
My favorite album from the wave point of view was Clan of Xymox' Hidden Faces. "This world" was a blatantly underplayed song here in clubs and such.
Gridlock - The Synthetic Form
Panacea - Low Profile Darkness
P.A.L - m@rix
Radiohead - OK Computer
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Atari Teenage Riot - Burn, Berlin, Burn !
Blur - Blur
Imminent Starvation - Human Dislocation
Synapscape - Rage
Autechre - Cichlisuite
these two don't really count because they're not really albums, but like a "best of" or "B-sides":
Jane's Addition - Kettle Whistle
Haujobb - From Homes To Planets
Added to every NYC club playing that every night at every venue for years after the fact.
Hey, does this mean we'll see you at the DNA on the 13th for the InSoc show?