Hovercraft – Experiment Below (1998)

Label: Blast First / Mute
Catalog#: BFFP 160 CD / 9080-2
Format: CD, Album, Digpak
Country: UK / US
Released: September 22, 1998
Style: Experimental Rock
Quality: MP3 VBR V0
Size: 79 MB

Beginning with faint guitar scratches and crackling harmonics, this is the third and final release from Seattle trio Hovercraft. Formed in the early-'90s by Beth Leisling and Ryan, it shoved aside the grunge trend soon to be exported from Seattle to probe the more intricate innards of rock. Bits of sound, both subtle and boisterous, trade places in the noise created by drums, guitar and bass. With the help of effects pedals, the members, also known as Cambell 2000 (Ryan), Dave (Karl 3-30) and Sadie 7 (Dash 11 on Experiment Below) take traditional rock instruments and pound, twist and extract machine-like emanations from them. In the vein of German experimental outfit Einsturzende Neubauten but with more melodic leanings, Hovercraft construct an underlying melody and take it, almost improvisationally, from there. From the psychedelic-soaked space jam "Phantom Limb," to the deceptively minimal sputtering and crashing of "Transmitter Down," it becomes amazing what the three do, each armed with one instrument and no vocals.

Tracklist:

1. Anthropod [6:06]
2. Phantom Limb [9:58]
3. Transmitter Down [10:07]
4. Endoradiosonde [6:52]
5. Benzedrine [1:50]
6. Wire Trace [5:37]
7. Epoxy [5:02]

Credits:

Bass — Sadie 7
Drums — Dash 11
Guitar — Campbell 2000
Engineer [Assistant] — Aaron Warner
Photography [Orange Sphere] — S. Hess
Written-By, Producer — Hovercraft

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