Schaft: Switchblade
- Olive
- The Hero Inside
- Thirsty Fly
- SKFI0047
- Nothing
- Slice
- Broken English
- Merry Christmas on Mars
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- Visual Cortex
- Fetid Air
- Arbor Vitate
- Cold Light
This is Japanese band "industrial" band with help from Raymond Watts. Raymond
contributes with the programming and some guitars; he also does vocals on half
of the songs, and these particular tracks sound very similar to his solo stuff
with Pig (aggressive depravity with some big band samples mixed in here and
there), with a little more chaotic edge to it. Raymond also has a tendency to
re-use some of his lyrics from his solo work, but unlike KMFDM, he surrounds
them with a different sound and atmosphere so that they come across in a
totally different light. While the songs involving Raymond are the best on
the album, the two actual members of the band show they are very adept at
composing a wide variety of styles (using different vocalists on each song) --
from the new-wavish Broken English' to the atmospheric, sound piece of Olive'
to the Dead Can Dance-like Visual Cortex'. Every one of these tracks are
remixes with such names as Autechre (who provide an incredible techno-ambient
twist), Meat Beat Manifesto, and Coil delving their very capable hands into
this process. However, since these are all remixes, it does leave some
confusion as to how the two members original material sound likes.
(Kevin Congdon)
Schaft is:
Imai Hisashi - guitars, vocals,noises
Fuji Maki - electric devices, computer programming, acoustic piano, noises
with Raymond Watts - vocals, computer programming, guitars, noises
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