Experiment Zero

1996

Estrus

Duration

Notes

Stereo Phase Test

1

01:03

Cool recording from some sort of old? Vinyl for checking a stereo setup for speaker phasing and stereo separation. Always gets em’ at parties…

Television Fission

2

01:50

One of the most intense, high-amperage, 240-beats per minute percussive tracks around. Must be played at Maximum Volume+1. Birdstuff cranks big time and the sweat is flying. Great for serious mayhem in full-on 4-wheel drive… Guitar work is staccato, with reverb that’s almost spooky in its perfection and fine bits where it sounds like the guitars are being scrubbed with a power sander.

DNI

3

02:13

When you regained conciousness, you’d think that this was "Television Fission, Part 2". The Kinder, Gentler cousin, perhaps. More really cool drum line, totally insistent. Tribal, nearly, in the middle. Guitar that yelps.

Planet Collision

4

02:18

Employs sound bites from the intensely fine sci-fi movie, "Kronos". If you haven’t seen it, check it out! Guitars are on a downward spiral, with most excellent tremolo work. SUSIE (Simple Unified Symmetric Integrating Equitensor; a computer in the flick) couldn’t have done it better herself…

Big Trak Attack

5

02:10

Do the Munsters theme from a Cramps point of view, and you get the picture. Add one of those toys that beep and flash lights, and mix liberally. A fine time.

9 Volt

6

02:29

Vocals by Starcrunch! Sweet, fast, driving, pull-in-case-of-fire guitar work. Like he says, "It’s not Rocket Science", but it’s good for 40+ on the mountain bike down Deadman’s Hill.

Evil Plans of Planet Spectra

7

01:59

More sound bites from an as-yet unidentified movie - sounds like Key Luke, though. Birdstuff beats the snot out of the skins, the guitars rip an ominous vision of terror and destruction but with the hope of salvation. Or something like that…

Bubba Zannetti (bubba_zanetti@anti-social.com) sez: "It is indeed Keye Luke on "Evil Plans of Planet Spectra" from the 70s TV cartoon "Battle of the Planets". It sounds like the episode was 'The Space Rock Concert'".

Anoxia

8

04:07

Sounds like Lou Reed talking about his trips while playing guitar in a windstorm. Don’t hold your breath, you might pass out.

Matt (Maggadog@aol.com) has trascribed the lyrics and they go as follows: "Blown up, January second, 1948 on a day that could've been like any other day. While on a routine mission aboard the jet fighter B-five one a tremendous craft of silver fell from the clouds and burned a hole straight through his jet then swinged out of the way ?all that he had ever known He'd seen, heard, something he never understood. Flash then their wings fell off. As he climbs..moves on the ground. Metal broken a little too late. It's tremendous. It's fantastic. It's colossal. It's colossal. [End of quiet groove]

Maximum Radiation Level

9

01:55

A sound bite from an old Civil Defense vinyl. But then it gets weird. And the beat goes on. The guitars chart a course into the next dimension, and there you are left.

King of the Monsters

10

02:21

Jungle drums. Demented surf intro. The drums don’t quit. The guitars are bent until they nearly break. And still the drums don’t stop. Great dance music, especially if on a board, skate-type or otherwise.

Cyborg Control

11

02:18

Don’t mess with Klixon, the Cyborg. Who’s this doof? Doesn’t he know that Earthers will always win? But listen, my child, to the sweet strings, as they paint a picture of global domination and submission. Glissando, anyone?

Doug Barkes (dbarkes@concentric.net) sez: The clips in "Cyborg Control" sound like they were taken from an old Star Wars kids book on tape called Droid World. The story went that the Rebels needed a droid repaired to get secret information, so they took it to Droid World where a cyborg (don't remember if his name was Klixon or something like that) states the rules heard in the song ("anything I repair, I keep" and "no human is allowed to set foot on my world").

Test Driver

12

02:44

A cover from the Bunnies - starts with radio chat on the carrier deck. Then the afterburners kick in, the cable snaps and 20000 lbs of supersonic strike force hits the sky. Feel the swell.

Television Man

13

02:45

Cover from David Byrne - vocals by the Crunch.

Z-X3

14

02:13

That damned servobot - can’t get good help nowadays. All are sitting atop their boards, looking out to sea, waiting for the drums to call up the first big wave from that storm off Oz. But then, shit, here it comes! Musta conjured up too many surf gods!

Principles Unknown

15

03:06

Theremin central. Coco sticking that darned antenna in everyone’s face, probing their E-fields. The end’s kinda like an injured robot that’s popping it’s circuit breakers. One by one.