Articles by Matt Mernagh

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  Tom Spacey

  Mars Is Eden

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  Tom Spacey is all that and a bag of weed. For the first 22 minutes, the music drones mildly, melding vocals, guitar, drums and Hammond orga...

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  Amoeba

  Watchful

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2000

  To expect anything less than excellence from ambient pioneer Robert Rich would be foolish. Watchful has a very mellow vibe that contains a...

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  Girls Under Glass

  Nightmares

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  This disc nicely sums up nine releases and 12 years of creating industrial tunage, and adds well-conceived covers and remixes by KMFDM and...

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  My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

  Dirty Little Secrets: Music to Strip By

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Much like the classic horror movie, Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy continue to come back to life as My Life with the Kill Kult, providing a ne...

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  Passion d'Flower

  Return of the Ugly Warrior

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  The best release from Toronto label Fading Ways Music comes from a band that imploded under the strain of a glimmer of poetic genius. This...

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  Various

  A Winter’s Song Vol. 2

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Toronto’s Rhea Obsession’s do double duty by singing beautifully (“We Three Kings”) with the help of Spahn Ranch&#8...

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  Kevorkian Death Cycle

  A+O[m]

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  KDC are much more suited to creating ass-shaking electro beats than the dour ones that accompanied their previous album, Dark Skies —...

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  Pulse Legion

  oNE tHiNG

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Pulse legion are capable of creating a very dark, brooding, synthetic, electronic sound for the darkened corners of a dance floor, but thei...