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artist...: Christoph De Babalon : ':::::::::
title....: If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It :::::::::
label....: Digital Hardcore :::::::::
cat.nr...: DHRCD 8 :::::::::
style....: Electronic :::::::::
chan-mode.: Full Stereo :::::::::
rls.size.: 105,9 MB source....: CDDA :::::::::
rls.date.: Dec-31-2002 encoder...: Lame 3.93.1 MMX :::::::::
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How, you may wonder, does Christoph de Babalon deign to :::::::::
begin the most exhilarating and challenging electronic/ :::::::::
noise/techno/drum-and-bass/whatever record in recent :::::::::
memory? With a ten-plus minute percussionless dirge-shriek :::::::::
entitled "Opium" that's how. Just like Third Eye :::::::::
Foundation or the Melvins at their most immovable, but :::::::::
more like vapor trails and dementia. :::::::::
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I had written off the DHR label in the wake of the :::::::::
aesthetic one-dimensionality of Shizuo, EC8OR, Sonic :::::::::
Subjunkies, and even Atari Teenage Riot. My fears mounted :::::::::
as the whole operation appeared to be sucked helplessly :::::::::
into the vacuum of NYC hipster paralysis. Jon Spencer :::::::::
remixes? Puh-leeese. But this one record makes the whole :::::::::
sorry scenario worthwhile. From what I can gather, :::::::::
Christoph de Babalon has been actively destroying music :::::::::
and being a John Peel darling since 1994, though this is :::::::::
his first full-length. He's based in Germany, there's :::::::::
another hint. Can I just add one more biographical note :::::::::
about Babalon before I talk about the record? He looks :::::::::
eerily like Ian Curtis in every photo I have seen. This is :::::::::
an important point of context in understanding the :::::::::
techno-existential hell of If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It. :::::::::
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The exhilaration never fades after "Opium". "Nostep" is :::::::::
best described as a cross between a circuit board shorting :::::::::
out and a seizure. "What You Call a Life" is simply :::::::::
gorgeous, crossing deranged spoken samples with hyper :::::::::
beats like a suicidal Photek. "Dead (Too)" and "Damaged :::::::::
III" are all nervous twitches and paranoia -- vicious and :::::::::
unrelenting. The Photek (and this is a good thing) ghost :::::::::
shows its face again in "Release" -- with perfect crystal :::::::::
layers of drum programming. Intriguingly, the record is :::::::::
divided into four sides, each side beginning with an epic :::::::::
ambient funeral arrangement before the aggression begins :::::::::
again. There could be a conceptual arrangement but I was :::::::::
too enraptured by the drum and bass void closer of "My :::::::::
Confession" to formulate any grand theories. That Babalon :::::::::
can so effectively balance the necessities of silence and :::::::::
noise is just another testament to his... :::::::::
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There is not one flaw on this album. Babalon manipulates :::::::::
isolationism, jungle, drone, illbient, experimental noise :::::::::
-- it's all his for the taking now. If there were any :::::::::
appreciation of true art left in the music industry, 80% :::::::::
of all musicians would be happily retiring upon hearing If :::::::::
You're Into It... and Cat Power's Moon Pix, then becoming :::::::::
shoe salesmen just because they knew that they could never :::::::::
better this. Not this one. :::::::::
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Never have I heard such an evocative, lyrical album, :::::::::
without any words at all. Babalon's sound excursions are :::::::::
obviously intensely personal and terrifying at the same :::::::::
time. Mick Harris and Richard (Aphex Twin) James are the :::::::::
only two reference points I would dare to suggest to you. :::::::::
If You're Into It... is gloriously self-indulgent and :::::::::
unhinged, like everything that is young and snotty and :::::::::
brilliant. :::::::::
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--Matthew Moyer :::::::::
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01 : Christoph De Babalon - Opium 15:29 :::::::
02 : Christoph De Babalon - Nostep 03:38 :::::::
03 : Christoph De Babalon - Expressure 05:01 :::::::
04 : Christoph De Babalon - What You Call A Life 05:00 :::::::
05 : Christoph De Babalon - Water 04:39 :::::::
06 : Christoph De Babalon - Brilliance 07:10 :::::::
07 : Christoph De Babalon - Dead (Too) 06:10 :::::::
08 : Christoph De Babalon - Damaged Iii 04:29 :::::::
09 : Christoph De Babalon - Release 04:26 :::::::
10 : Christoph De Babalon - High Life (Theme) 11:05 :::::::
11 : Christoph De Babalon - My Confession 09:53 :::::::
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Some say we have grown to a mature group now that we are 2 years :::::.
old. We will keep pumpin out nice electronic music releases like ::::::
we have done for the past 2 years :) So we guess there is nothing ::::::
more to say than this: ::::::
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The artists we deal with are not rock stars. They don't pretend ::::::
to be 'the man'. They're not part of the establishment, the multi- ::::::
million dollar music business. So the only way our scene can stay ::::::
alive is through undying support for the artists and labels. *THIS* ::::::
is the sole reason we release music... ::::::
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So for fuck's sake, if you like what your hear, go to your local ::::::
record shop and purchase a copy of your own. It's your duty! Only ::::::
through this process we can all continue to enjoy techno music to ::::::
the fullest. As far as our releases go, if you can get hold of them, ::::::
be happy and treasure them. Don't start posting to public domains ::::::
or sources!! This will eventually result in a more restricted ::::::
distribution of our releases, possibly even only internal...
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