Exorcise the Demons

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Finally, a drum & bass album that doesn't wrap itself in the guise of a concept record. Instead, Source Direct (actually two lads from St. Albans, England, Jim Baker and Phil Aslett) fill their debut long-player with brutal, jarring beats, intersected by off-kilter rhythms wrought with fire and fury. Like Photek (who heads their U.K. label, Science), Source Direct play with the beats and bass, stray from the simple two-step format so popular on dance floors, and summon the drum pattern in a frenetic start-and-stop manner. At times, the structure can be deceptively simple--"Mind Weaver" is stripped bare to drum and bass, before the producers bastardize the track with off-key filters and highs that stab at the song's melody. It sounds, like the title says, as if someone's exorcising the demons. --Tricia Romano

Spin
Source Direct's particularly hyperkinetic strain of breakbeat science riddles and addles the brain, outmaneuvering perception and testing the ear's ability to trace the path of the beats.

Tracks:

Call & Response
Mind Weaver
Haunted
Technical Warfare
Love & Hate
Capital D
Dubstar
Wanton Conduct
Concealed Identity

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Finally, a drum & bass album that doesn't wrap itself in the guise of a concept record. Instead, Source Direct (actually two lads from St. Albans, England, Jim Baker and Phil Aslett) fill their debut long-player with brutal, jarring beats, intersected by off-kilter rhythms wrought with fire and fury. Like Photek (who heads their U.K. label, Science), Source Direct play with the beats and bass, stray from the simple two-step format so popular on dance floors, and summon the drum pattern in a frenetic start-and-stop manner. At times, the structure can be deceptively simple--"Mind Weaver" is stripped bare to drum and bass, before the producers bastardize the track with off-key filters and highs that stab at the song's melody. It sounds, like the title says, as if someone's exorcising the demons. --Tricia Romano

Customer Reviews:

fantastic drum and bass CD.......2003-03-27

Exorcise the Demons is an awesome CD. I recently started exploring this genre of music, and I am quite impressed with the tracks on this CD. I had originally bought it for the first track (Call and Response) because it was on the movie "Blade". But I had also sampled a few of the other tracks on the CD, and I liked what I had heard. I bought the CD, and I was indeed extremely pleased with it. If you purchase this CD though, make sure you have a good system to play it with, because if it can't handle the bass, you're out of luck! Very pleasing to the ears and even relaxing at times as well

Stale beats; go with Controlled Developments instead.......2001-01-31

I'm a big fan of Source Direct, Photek, and the rest of the kings in the techstep wing of the jungle movement. However, this is one album too avoid. For one, two tracks ("Call and Response" and "Capital D") can be found on Controlled Developments. For another, the beats are way, way too slow and simple. They're not deceptively simple, they're just simple. The production values are high -- Source Direct loves those clean, crisp breakbeats. But the rhythmic structure is just too bland. And the songs aren't pulled together in any kind of theme. Controlled Developments is the much better album (the songs are more inspired, there's much better bass, and there aren't any repeats).

A FAVORITE OF ANY DARK DRUM 'N' BASS FAN!.......2000-12-12

WOW When i first got this CD i didn't know whether or not to keep listening or run for cover and wait until i wasn't scared to come out of hiding. An audio masterpiece, and an instant favorite. You will LOVE Controlled Developments if you like this...

Top-Notch..........2000-11-05

Photek protegees Phil Aslett and Jim Baker had been prowling the darker-than-dark fringes of drum n' bass for years before letting loose 1998's ferocious EXORCISE THE DEMONS. Like their meticulous mentor, Source Direct's break-charmers acquit themselves admirably. Their first album is a definitive slab of darkcore intensity.Source Direct is fairly single-minded in the pursuit of thick, sinister atmosphere, yakuza-style bass, and melodic dark-matter. The relentlessly slicing and stabbing stainless-steel breakbeats would be mentally debilitating if not for the varied--and somewhat amusing--textures deftly woven into such tension-breakers as "Love & Hate" and "Dubstar." Source Direct's production is sterling throughout. Through sheer force of talent and vision, EXORCISE THE DEMONS craftily outsmarts the album-jinx that continues to bedevil even the duo's most club-savvy peers.

Not Controlled Developments!.......2000-04-21

I read a review by another listed and I must say, "you are totally false!" I dont remember who it was exactly, but they said that Source Direct was far from a "Dark Alternative" music span. Well, I can say that I agree with the fact that "Exorcise the Demons" isnt as "dark" as "Controlled Developments", but it all depends on the listener. What is dark to one person may not be dark to the other! Let people decide on the album themselves and stop trying to tell people what is dark and what isnt! Aside from the fact that they put 2 tracks on this album off of their last album, the album is worth the buy! One track that does not tickle my fancy: "Dubstar"

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