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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Boris - Absolutego

Year: 1996
Genre: Drone Doom
Year: 1996
Country: Japan
Tracklist:
01 - Absolutego
02 - Dronevil 2
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Pass: Orion

By its very nature, music is not supposed to be an endurance test. Music is supposed to be fun to listen to, a delight, and yet with the mere mention of the word ‘metal’, we accept that we want more than subservience from our ear candy. Ask yourself why you got into Heavy Metal in the first place – was it because it made a prettier noise than that which the radio played? No, it was because it appealed to something darker in you, and that’s true whether you’re the most sickest of Pornogrinders or fruitiest of Power Metallers. By accepting the steel, we’ve taken a step into the beyond and rejected the commercial. Of course, once you’ve gotten fully into it you realise that much of the commercial has been taken up by the Metal world, whether it’s the catchiness, that hook that makes a good song into a great one, or it’s simply fun to listen to. Metal and non-Metal are closer than many people on both sides of the barricade like to admit, and this closeness is what fuels the true/untrue debates that rage constantly like massive storms on the face of Jupiter.

Back in 1996, few people had heard the phenomenon that would grow to become Drone. There were no articles in the mainstream press, no hipster bullshit that would turn off the Metalheads from embracing this ‘new’ genre from the start, despite its roots going back further than even the Blues, all the way back to early Eastern religions and the ‘om’ pulse. Heck, try singing with your mouth closed - that hum, that primordial sound is drone, is tapping into the primordial part of us, that part that remembers living in caves and hunting food with our claws and teeth, THAT is what makes the sound so eerie, so strange. It is something otherworldly, completely opposite to what we would normally subject our ears to, and that is why its devotees are growing, why otherwise normal Indie kids want to go to a Sunn 0))) show and feel their teeth vibrate.

Few can overlook this and simply accept Music for what it is, a singular organism that embraces all sounds, whether it’s three-minute pop singles or hour-long Drone pieces. Each has its effect, each speaks to individuals – we all have songs that affect us emotionally, and few can explain why. Certain things, though, are universal. Anyone, whoever you are, whatever type of music you habitually listen to, whether it’s Gorgoroth or Gorillaz – there is one type of music that will crush you, and that is the almighty Drone, and few can propel that dark weight like Japanese three-piece Boris. Although the band’s total discography shows over twenty-five full-length releases in just over ten years, all with a variety of styles, it’s debut album Absolutego that is the focus here.

As you probably know, Absolutego is made of a single track over an hour long, yet it’s far from dull. Building up from ambience into chaos, screaming voices and manic drumming, epic troughs and peaks that will crush your spirit and reduce your ego to something less than human, this is a musical trip unlike any other. As the title suggests, this is absolute ego – this is the self, dissolved into a million pieces and placed back together, this is you gazing at the universe, gazing at you. This is a universe in meltdown, this is an, hell, THE intelligent designer taking a break and having a spliff. It’s become a cliché, and yet this IS glaciers sliding across each other in some otherworldly consummation, the sound of a volcano deciding to ejaculate, the sound of darkness become physical.

It’s become clear, the gods have revealed; you either are down with the Drone or you aren’t. Absolutego is a single, long, Drone piece that is over an hour long. You either love it, or you hate it, and if you hate it, then it’s your loss. Either way, there’s an eternal, universal list of things that people should try once in their otherwise pathetically short lives. Amongst this list of threesomes, cocaine and skydiving, lies buried Absolutego, an aural experience like no other. Describing the journey inch by inch would be pointless – you have to take it for yourself.

CD re-released in 2001 by Southern Lord Records with an alternate cover as
"Special Low Frequency Version" with bonus track "Drone Evil 2" (07:50).

BORIS (jpn) Boris & Merzbow-Rock Dream [2007]

BORIS
Boris & Merzbow-Rock Dream [2007]

*Disco 1
1. Feedbacker
2. Black Out
3. Evil Stack
4. Rainbow

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*Disco 2
1. Pink
2. Woman on the Screen
3. Nothing Special
4. Ibitsu
5. a bao a qu
6. The Evilone Which Sobs
7. Flower Sun Rain
8. Just Abandoned Myself
9. Farewell

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Friday, August 29, 2008

Boris - Pink (2005)

Boris - Pink (2005)
APE+CUE+LOG or VBR290 | 55:26 | 429MB or 121MB | Covers
Genre: Stoner/Slugde/Drone/Neo-Psychedelia
Re-release in 2006 (Southern Lord CD version)

Southern Lord CD version:
Different cover from Japanese pressing; features same extended cuts as the Japanese 2xLP. The cover art features pictures by the poet and artist William Blake depicting Satan from his illustrations to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Interestingly, the album also comes with three paintings of bizarre devilish imagery on sheets of what resembles perforated "blotter paper," usually associated with LSD. Also, the misspelling of 'abandoned' to 'abondoned' on the album sleeve and online MP3 tagging seems to be intended.

Review:
Pink highlights three aspects of Boris – their trippy, ambient sound, their Japanese-version-of-Motorhead garage rock, and their psychedelic drone. The predominant style is the traditional, song-structured rock. The title track and “Electric” reminded me of the last Greenmachine album – full of piss and vinegar and buzzsaw guitars. Really strong numbers. The songs that really captured my attention and left me wanting more.
Arzgarth, StonerRock.com

Recorded: 2005
Released: 2006
Label: Southern Lord
Audio: sunn55

Track listing:

01. Farewell - 7:33
02. Pink - 4:20
03. Woman on the Screen - 2:38
04. Nothing Special - 2:17
05. Blackout - 4:49
06. Electric - 1:45
07. Pseudo-Bread - 4:29
8. Afterburner - 4:22
09. Six Three Times - 2:53
10. My Machine - 2:01
11. Just Abandoned Myself - 18:14

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lossless:
http://rapidshare.com/files/89025825/B2005P.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/89028702/B2005P.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/89032391/B2005P.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/89035739/B2005P.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/89038226/B2005P.part5.rar
password: necromandus

mp VBR 290:
http://rapidshare.com/files/89042131/B2005PMP3.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/89044493/B2005PMP3.part2.rar

covers (150dpi):
http://rapidshare.com/files/89045897/B2005PPIC.rar

Boris - Dronevil -Final- (2CD) (2005)

Boris - Dronevil -Final- (2CD) (2005)
APE+CUE+LOG or CBR320 | 1:01:39min + 1:02:59min | 268MB+343MB or 144MB+148MB | Covers
Genre: Drone Doom/Noise/Ambient

Track listing:

Disc 1 (Side Drone)

1. Loose - 21:34 (2CD only)
2. Giddiness Throne - 20:23
3. Interference Demon - 19:43

Disc 2 (Side Evil)

1. Red - 21:30 (2CD only)
2. Evil Wave Form - 19:44
3. The Evil One Which Sobs - 21:44

Recorded: 2005
Released: 2006 (2CD)
Label: Inoxia Records
Audio: ixcd-0403/0404

Dronevil was re-released through Inoxia Records as Dronevil - Final in 2006 on (double) CD format, remastered by Jason Lescalleet with two additional tracks not found on the original release.

The album was originally released on double vinyl in a pressing of 1000 copies; 200 on grey vinyl and 800 on black, but is intended to have both LPs played simultaneously, a similar concept to that employed by The Flaming Lips on their concept album Zaireeka. Disc A (Drone) is three tracks, totaling roughly 61 minutes in length. Disc B (Evil) is also three tracks, totaling roughly 61 minutes. Logically, the Drone LP's three tracks are quieter and fall in the more ambient/drone spectrum of Boris' work. The Evil LP's emphasis is on guitar-work, falling into the doom-metal range of Boris.

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