Looking for some excursion into the realm of underground electronic music? Need a new CD to spin in a club somewhere? Just want to get your hands on some decent party music that's got a dark feel? Ballistic Test Productions graces us with Invasion of the Nanomachines, a compilation of songs by several of their artists. On this CD you get;
1. EYE - Doishka
2. Jagged Doctrine - You Don't Know Me (Hossanova Mix)
3. Audio Paradox - Ageless (Halflife Mix)
4. A Different Kind of Cop - Crystal Light
5. Faith - Step Away
6. Substructure - Aggressive Anxiety
7. Paragon Null - Excursions
8. Confession of Faith - Lower
9. Sixty*Below - Familiar Conceptions Die Hard
10. Null Factor - Phase Shifter
11. Midiboy - Archaic
12. Colossal Spin - Are You Satisfied?
With the variety of bands given to this project everyone's tastes are satisfied as the music ranges from straight heavy guitar fronted industrial, dark ambient, electro industrial, goth, trance, and more. Definite stand outs here are Jagged Doctrine who never cease to please, A Different Kind of Cop (see review of their full length in the reviews section) Audio Paradox (one of my all time fav industrial bands) and Colossal Spin. Some of the songs presented here were a bit out of range of my own personal tastes but certainly they were good efforts for the genre music they were filling.
Best thing about this CD? Well it's another MP3.COM special! That's right this one, as so many of the other DAM CDs offered through MP3.COM will cost you no more than $5.99! There is no going wrong here at all. So again if you need to get your hands on some good electronic music, this is certainly the CD you need to look into.
8/10
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The Phantom Tollbooth 2001Reviewed by Ken MuellerI'm a fan of Industrial music, particularly those bands on the metal side of things: Circle of Dust, Klank, Fell Venus, Chatterbox, Argyle Park, and the like. But the good ol' days of industrial are apparently over as evidenced by this latest collection from Ballistic Test Productions. Ever since I first discovered Industrial music back in the early to mid-90s I've been dying to find more quality…
