Oopie Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Eat Static - Prepare Your Spirit (Alien Records 1992) A1 Hallucinate A2 Fudge A3 Worm-Lips A4 Instinct A5 Eat-Static A6 Destiny A7 Raga CD 1 Bonus: 8 The Plot 9 Kinesis B1 Almost Human B2 Om Machine B3 Cyber-Funk B4 The Watcher B5 Higher State B6 Woman Is Life B7 Medicine Wheel B8 The Fourth Dimension CD 2 Bonus: 9 Humm ll 10 The Element... It's funny - 'Abduction' is often regarded as the first Eat Static album and yours truly included thought so back in the days. The reason 'Prepare Your Spirit' perhaps never had such a wide recognition is because the album was initially only released as a limited edtion cassette (the artwork on that one is epic though, gotta admit) so only the lucky few got a hold of the album back then. And as many know, 'Abduction' was already a whole another story distribution and sales wise. I believe this album was kinda "resurrected" when this double cd version was printed. And it's a great version too, holding a couple beautiful extra tracks not to be found on the original cassette release. The music is a bit tricky to put in words with my limited imagination... I think essentially this album carries that UK rave-scene attitude of the early 90s with some added alien/ufo thematics - its sample trickery is almost second to none (Double Dee & Steinski are hard to match) and there are certainly lot of effects with definite extraterrestrial feel. A few tracks such as the self-titled 'Eat Static' or 'Destiny' sound remotely like the psytrance you'd only begin to hear around '95. And then you have 'The Watcher' with it's furious 148bpm beat, what a tune! Sure this track has a bit of that "rave scene" smell to it, but let me tell you it's years ahead of the fast banging psytrance that followed. Truly a pioneering track if something ought to be highlighted on this album. I was initially thinking about writing here "Grab your copy asap!" but it seems finding one these days seems like the biggest obstacle. But if you do, well, you know what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yerg Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 This isn't a bad album, and it does have that early Prodigy-rave kind of style in many tracks. My favorites are Raga, Kinesis, and The Watcher, which is the best track on the album IMO. The rest are ok and totally listenable tracks, if you can tolerate a somewhat outdated style of production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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