Illusion of Safety - The Need To Now [expcd002]

Illusion of Safety, Dan Burke’s ongoing and ever evolving project since 1983, contributes a fantastic new album to the experimedia catalog. A hand signed and numbered limited edition release, The Need To Now is one of Burke’s more stark and minimal works.While more minimalistic overall, The Need To Now still embraces Burke’s penchant for broad dynamics, building from soft tones, drones, and distant whistling to maddening noise and back down to near silence with just the smallest trace of air space.Music box like tones dance loosely throughout constructed industrial ambient environments.Soft crackling, static and noises fizzle in and out of focus while subtle guitar rises quietly in the distance.Deconstructed voices, samples, rhythms, and instruments arranged into brilliant sound montages in ways reminiscent of the classic GRM school of tape cut ups.A soundtrack for sedated asylum inmates.This masterful work by one of the veteran heroes of avant-garde post-industrial music aims at activating modes of perception, deprogramming reality, and recombining information pointing toward a new reality/environment.The Need To Now comes packaged in experimedia’s signature tall slim pack and features the photography of Chris Block.Strictly limited to 150 copies. Your order of the limited edition packaged CD includes immediate bonus downloads of the album in highest quality MP3 and/or lossless FLAC formats so that you may begin to enjoy the album before your package arrives. Orders of the physical package (including free bonus downloads) can be made HERE for $10. Download only sales of the full album in FLAC or MP3 are exclusively available HERE for $5.

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