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I.F. - PS 08/33 Release Date: 17 January 1994 Limitation: 500 Jadd 12.41 Ten Waves 25.05 Kisy Loa 14.44 Caravan 23.57 all tracks written by Dr. Atmo and Deep Space Network
Not as good as IF 2. Kisy Loa is a slow moving and atmospheric track but the others leave me cold. I find it sounding strangely naive when I listen to it. The didgeridoos in the fourth track just made me turn it off. I would say this was really for completists only but I know that others would disagree, especially given its mythically hard to track down reputation. I paid a small fortune for mine and now someone else has it so draw your own conclusions...
(review by Rowland Atkinson)
Alright, coming to you straight from the fringes of our galaxy is a recent release simply titled "I.F." a collaboration between Dr. Atmo and The Deep Space Network. It is a lush and fulfilling 70 plus min of ambience, textures and slowly rolling and pulsating beats. The first track is more delicate like an alien ballad, exercises in classical space music. The second track is sampled voices and conversations of unknown imparting wisdoms laid over pulses, vibrations and drones (listen to this on high quality headphones). The first 30 min of spacey, hallucination-inducing trippiness merely set you up for the final 40 min ride home on earthy rumbling bass, flitting in and out of wash fuzzbox guitars. The languorous pace is a definite dubwise nod, the guitar fx strictly Enoesque (or for those familiar with this genre Michael Brook.) It's a must for any enthusiast of ambient and ambient dub. It has more substance than Oliver Lieb and Pete Namlook--you can sink your teeth into this. This is one space jockey that is making music with the greatest of the sultans of chill.
(review by Shawn Travalent)
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