01.
Silver Disguise
1:11
02.
The Seed of Fire
2:58
03.
Disembodied
4:52
04.
Sequences for Sun Ra
8:33
05.
Artificial Limbs
3:42
06.
Neutralized
1:37
07.
Asscertain
4:38
08.
Snakefinger Food
1:08
09.
Dark Ages (for Sonny Sharrock)
9:16
10.
This Is the Exit
2:57
11.
Blues from Outer Space
3:29
12.
Urban Art Form
6:02
13.
Pummelhorse
3:38
14.
If You Knew What They Sprayed on Bananas...You
Wouldn't Eat Them
1:21
15.
Rural Crime Watch
2:54
16.
Diabolik!!
5:13
17.
The Swarm
4:17
18.
Circle of Innovation
4:50
19.
Presenting unknown guitar legend, Dick Custard
3:53
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Chris "MAMA" Bauer
- A Universe of Horrors -
Chris MAMA Bauer
A Universe of Horrors
By Glen Hall
People talk of getting in touch with their
inner child. Bauer's music is a direct route
to contacting that 13-year-old boy inside
who loves monster movies and getting creeped
out. Culled from 18 albums created from '94
to '09, A Universe of Horrors exhibits a
consistent aesthetic. Clunky drum samples,
low-tech synths and amped-up guitars sculpt
tracks that embody MAMA's obsession with
jagged, jerky rhythms, bizarre keyboard clusters
and viscerally screaming melody lines, as
the eerie "Seed of Fire" exemplifies.
"Sequences for Sun Ra" skitters
out of kilter, with a stuttering swarm of
keyboards of differing timbres and reverb
depths creating a dizzying ballet, like so
many alien jellyfish in a black light aquarium.
And filmmakers out there take note: Universe
is a compendium of tracks that would add
texture and "oomph" to any movie,
be it a meditation on the undead or a Saw
sequel. MAMA's music brings its A-game to
the B-movie in your mind. (Transistor 66)
