Hypnerotomachia

1. 50 Kilos of Uncut Metropoline

2. Violent Storms Descend from the Magnetosphere

3. The Soundless Hum of Prayer

4. Montauk Sunshine: A virulent and coveted experimental poison

5. Psychic Blueprint for a City

6. The Unutterable Occurrence

7. The Chronomaton

8. The Secret Retreat Beneath Sitra Ahra, the City of Shells

9. Heavenly Holocaust of Somber Satellites

Editorial Reviews

The Stranger, Seattle
A decendent of King Tubby, by way of DJ Spooky. Majors futurism is that of urban archeology. Impressive and ambitious.

Product Description
With this release, Philosophy Major, who has produced tracks for Illegal Art and Arable Farmland, collaborated with New York art-rockers, Rasputina, co-founded Seattle’s LoveCraft Technologies Inc., co-written and co-produced (with Dub Maestro Prince Charming) Fantastic Voyage (WSCD029), and studied improvisation with jazz legend Yusef Lateef, bends his energies to the indoctrination of the uninitiated into the mysteries of the new-alchemy and Black Ark orchestration. Building upon a solid foundation of dub groove-science, weaving samples culled from 78s and archival wax cylinders with some of the heaviest drum-machine mayhem since Big Black’s Earth Atomizer, and punctuated throughout with analog explosions of pure, sorcerous sound, Hypnerotomachia is a monument to the creative power of dissolution.

Hypnerotomachia

Tracks:

50 Kilos of Uncut Metropoline
Violent Storms Descend from the Magnetosphere
The Soundless Hum of Prayer
Montauk Sunshine: A virulent and coveted experimental poison
Psychic Blueprint for a City
The Unutterable Occurrence
The Chronomaton
The Secret Retreat Beneath Sitra Ahra, the City of Shells
Heavenly Holocaust of Somber Satellites

Album Description

With this release, Philosophy Major, who has produced tracks for Illegal Art and Arable Farmland, collaborated with New York art-rockers, Rasputina, co-founded Seattle's LoveCraft Technologies Inc., co-written and co-produced (with Dub Maestro Prince Charming) Fantastic Voyage (WSCD029), and studied improvisation with jazz legend Yusef Lateef, bends his energies to the indoctrination of the uninitiated into the mysteries of the new-alchemy and Black Ark orchestration. Building upon a solid foundation of dub groove-science, weaving samples culled from 78s and archival wax cylinders with some of the heaviest drum-machine mayhem since Big Black's Earth Atomizer, and punctuated throughout with analog explosions of pure, sorcerous sound, Hypnerotomachia is a monument to the creative power of dissolution.

Customer Reviews:

correction.......2006-02-18

I would encourage any owners of this CD to cross my name from the credits.

Fantastic New Dub!.......2003-12-15

I first became acquainted with Philosophy Major through the liner notes of Prince Charming's Fantastic Voyage. At the time though, I couldn't tell if he was a real person or just another figment of the Prince's weird imagination. Turns out, not only is he real, he's got some serious skills. At first listen, the CD will remind you of Amon Tobin, We, *early* Laswell, and of course fellow Wordsound posse Ebn e sync, Spectre and of course, Prince Charming. Then you realize he has his own thing going on, and it's powerful. I recommend this CD to anyone that thinks that Dub deserves better poster children than Smith and Mighty and the rest of the groove sanitizers that have come out in recent years.

Album Review:

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Flashlight/Don't Fight the Feeling

Mendelssohn: Concerto for piano & violin/Symphony 7

Mask of Orpheus (Complete)

Music: Piano con Yunfa [Import]

Nights Are Forever [Import]

Opus Nocturne [Import]

Nearer My God to Thee: The Gospel Series

Never Let You Go [CD-single] [Import]

Lugli [Import]

Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Shostakovich / Britten / Enesco: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Strings / Piano Concerto / Lége

Melange

New Age Music: 100% Rai, Vol. 3 [Import]

Old School Volume 4

Sweet Man

Turned-On Broadway