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Tim Schuldt - First Error Code

 

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Artist: Tim Schuldt

Title: First Error Code

Label: Aurinko

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Prologue

02. Stained

03. One Step Closer

04. Search For Salvation

05. Tearing The Fright

06. Constant And Sharp

07. First Error Code

08. Pick To Pieces

09. Traced Back

10. When Anger Cries

11. Deceived

12. Forget

 

Review:

 

Tim Schuldt succumbs to the seemingly-universal temptation of putting up on a

pedestal whatever one listened to during puberty. Gloomy, hand-wringing,

ultimately self-indulgent angst results. There are vocals. The very reason I

can't enjoy Industrial anymore - it's back in full force. The result is, to

his credit, different from any psy CD out there. Is it any good? A thousand

times no!, says me. A few marginally listenable tracks raise the interest

meter to 3/10 for me.

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Guest Kindgok

Psy elements on First Error Code are scarce. "Secrets," the trancey b-side of

the "Traced Back" single, is the closest thing to psy Tim Schuldt has produced

recently, and it's absent from this album. The most chilling new track imo

(assuming you've already heard the singles)is #3. Listen to those eerie

choral bits...perfect for night driving! This'll go nicely with my favorite

FLA tracks. The last one, because of its loungy, downtempo nature, is a bit

of an awkward ending. Were it flip-flopped with the hidden industrial track

at the end of the disc, it might make for a more consistent listening

experience. -kingdok

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  • 2 weeks later...

Who likes metal guitars? who likes heavy gothic voices? I do! Don't expect

psytrance, cuz this is totally not! But it's very very good in it's style. I

like the whole album very much.

In terms of anger and metal 10/10

In terms of psytrance? No comment...

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Like everyone else already said here, this ain't no psy, not even remotely...

the only track that sounds like the kind of industrial that later on gave us

goatrance is Search for Salvation. Tearing the Fight sounds like a mix between

Prodigy and NIN!! Rough breakbeat and electronic sounds with a screaming rock

voice on top... wierd but I like it! Reminded me of those colaborations

between Noel Gallanger and Chemical Bros and Goldie. Prologue and Constant and

Sharp sound like some dark beatless ambient. Rest of them sound like

industrial rock, sorta like Nine Inch Nails.... but I saved the best for

last... the hidden track after Forget is a KILLER!! You think the album's all

over... and then sudenly you have this distorted bass and a very creepy

synthline twirling around your speakers (sorta like Techno Animal, but

better-done), then a distorted guitar comes in and the sample "Now look at

me!!", sorta like the creepy voice in Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy. The track

lasts only about 2 minutes but damn, it's by FAR the best on the whole album!!

Bad trips and nightmares guranteed!! I sure hope his whole next album will

sound like that!! 10/10 for the bonus track, 4/10 for the rest (more if you're

into industrial rock, I'm not...)

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TIM SCHULDT - FIRST ERROR CODE

2003

AURINKO RECORDS

 

 

 

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Track listing:

 

01. Prologue

02. Stained

03. One Step Closer

04. Search For Salvation

05. Tearing The Fright

06. Constant And Sharp

07. First Error Code

08. Pick To Pieces

09. Traced Back

10. When Anger Cries

11. Deceived

12. Forget

 

 

My problem with this album is directly related to exactly what the first reviewer wrote above. The artist here mixes singing tracks with non singing tracks. The non singing electronica consists of few tracks. One is ambient, another is psytrance, and the last is Down-Tempo. The singing tracks generally remind me of how the harsh singing is done in Velvet Acid Christ for those familiar with them.

 

There are some seriously well done non singing tracks are on this album. I get irritated skipping to them because there are so few without lyrics. I don't hate singing as much as I have difficulty enjoying it the way it's done here, the angry/heavy harsh male voice. This is another genre from psytrance and I respect that. It isn't the style I prefer listening to. That's all. I don't know if heavy rock and industrial (with singing) is the correct term but much of this album seems to be in that style. I grew up with Nine Inch Nails for instance and love many of their tracks but this is very different from NIN too. The reality is that when I hear the tight, gripping psytrance or electronica work of Search For Salvation I instantly wonder how great it would be if Tim Schuldt made an entire album of great and superb ambient and/or driving, melodic psytrance songs, none with lyrics.

 

He's created some excellent tracks both in and around his singles collection. I listen to the opening "Prologue" track. It's an extremely dark and brooding ambient piece. Wow I think. This is interesting. I feel so sad and hopeless and alone while listening to it. I don't enjoy these feelings per say but damn this good music in how well portrayed it is to bring out such emotions in the listener!

 

I listen to the sweet melodies around the action packed industrial tech-trance song in "One Step Closer" around the singing from around 2:05 to 2:30 and I imagine how well done and powerful this could be without the distraction of the angry lyrics and singing. I can barely make out these words anyway! And I don't want to read the inside flip to know every word being said, no offense. Musically he does some amazing work which puts me in states I can't fall into with the distraction of singing.

 

Tearing The Fright is a fast, breakbeat track with some lyrics. I actually like this song most with lyrics on the album because of the beat, the breaks, and the melody work. The singing doesn't bother me either because I enjoy the music behind it in some strange, zippy, techno-esque way.

 

The artist even creates a fairly solid downtempo song to end the album on titled "Forget?!." This closing track follows a hidden bonus track involving dark, crunching Industrial-Metal Ambient (for the first half) if I'd ever call a song one.

 

I'm not familiar with todays heavy rock (or hardcore) but I believe that the style works best when kept separate to psytrance. I know this artist has made and can make great and excellent work. I can hear some wonderful music at times with even the singing taking place in tracks like "When Anger Cries" but I just can't enjoy the other parts.

 

To be fair I'm not saying the lyrics are out of place here because they seem to be on the majority of the tracks. If anything is out of place it's the electronica (ambient, downtempo, psytrance) songs because they are the few without lyrics. They may even bum out the guy buying this album for the heavy rock/industrial which is ironic in a sense, or not.

 

I bought this album thinking it would have less lyrics than it does. I wanted Track 4 here hearing the sample. The album had already intrigued me with its strong opening ambient piece. I had also read great things about Tim Schuldts singles or singles collection. I was disappointed with this album in the end (2004 when I bought it) because it provided very little of what I was looking to find. In that sense I'm biased and I admit my biasness but the album doesn't have the best flow. It's more of a comp of newer (at the time) tracks to fans of Tim's general styles and work.

 

http://www.Psyshop.com listed this album as Psytrance at the time and they currently still do which isn't accurate for the most part. However I heard the samples and knew I was taking a chance.

 

This artist creates some extremely good work with melodies, atmosphere, mood/tone, instruments, beats, and emotion. And I'm happy he released the Four Carry Nuts - Mechanical Age album in 2004. For the most part I feel like my prayers have been answered.

 

 

I don't know how to score this album because I'd be looking at it for what it isn't. In that sense I'd score the following tracks...

 

 

1. Prologue ... B+

 

4. Search For Salvation ... B+ ... I highly recommend this artist make more tracks like this one and beyond! Boom!!!

 

5. Tearing The Fright ... B-

 

12. Forget?! ... B- / B

 

 

Favorite Songs 1, 4.

 

 

I currently will not score this because I feel too biased. To be honest I'd give it a poor grade and there is some seriously great work on this album in such small pieces to what I was looking for. I love track 4. With exception to the opening and closing ambient/downtempo ones, the general songs are out of my liking due to another sub-genre I don't care for and I feel too biased scoring something I have little to nothing I enjoy to compare it with.

 

 

Samples

 

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/aur/aur1cd003.html

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