Infotainment [Enhanced]

Infotainment [Enhanced]

Editorial Reviews
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Pitch Shifter, who once drew inspiration from Godflesh, reach beyond the constrictions of industrial metal to explore the vast possibilities of electronic sound. The band's Infotainment? is a visceral noise feast that combines crushing rhythms and cutting edge riffs with metallic techno and jungle beats. The result is the violent, chaotic sound of a society whose technological advances rapidly and unknowingly lead it to oblivion. Revel in the apocalypse. --Jon Wiederhorn

Tracks:

Introductory Disclaimer
Underachiever
(We're Behaving Like) Insects
Virus
Product Placement
(Harmless) Interlude
Bloodsweatsaliva
Hangar 84
Whiteout
Phoenixology
Pitch Sampler Vol. I
Pitch Sampler Vol. II

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Pitch Shifter, who once drew inspiration from Godflesh, reach beyond the constrictions of industrial metal to explore the vast possibilities of electronic sound. The band's Infotainment? is a visceral noise feast that combines crushing rhythms and cutting edge riffs with metallic techno and jungle beats. The result is the violent, chaotic sound of a society whose technological advances rapidly and unknowingly lead it to oblivion. Revel in the apocalypse. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews:

another take frlom this band.........2003-05-13

pitchshifter has somehow endured a number of style changes without losing their fanbase, something decidedly rare in music now. this cd, sadly hard to find now, provides their earlier playings with adding electornica into their more metal/industrial music, and they did a superb job with it. a band all about politics, and even being british as they are, the american's will identify ( especially with the bands unusual focus on american politics! ) this cd is decidedly worth owning, with such noteworthy tracks as phoenixology to the strange clip shot journey that is Hanger 84.

pitchshifter at the height of their sound.......2001-06-19

i must say this album is quite impressive and unique, it is much unlike any other of the whole industrial scene. the music is very brutal and technical, combining hard edge metal riffs with fast-paced techno style beats and the vocalist j.s. clayden sings and screams with distorted (?) aggressive vocals. altogether a chaotic, abrasive, brutal and very unique album. i rank this one up with my favourite industrial masterpieces like godflesh's "streetcleaner" and ministry's "psalm 69".

My Favorite CD Of The Hardcore Techno Revolution.......2000-09-24

Ptichshifter were and are the leaders and the best band in this whole industrial/nu-metal scene. Infotainment? is their best CD by far, featuring hardcore beats, fast guitars, and an array of programming tricks to make it worth the while. I love cranking this one up, because it sounds so good loud, and live as well. The gruff vocals mixed with techno are ingenious, and instead of being another brainless punk band, Pitchshifter are a smart band that knows what they're talking about politically. This quirkily abrasive band from Nottingham, England is one of the best forces on the metal circuit now, and should be checked out. The best songs are (We're Behaving Like) Insects, Whiteout, and Bloodsweatsaliva, but they're all good. Also check out Society 1, 20 Dead Flower Children, and Apartment 26.

Shock treatment mosh fodder.......1999-02-06

Pitch Shifter, Brit punkers turned industrial gurus, break new ground with Infotainment. They infuse massive doses of technology in their sound, but be warned: this is punk/metal, friends. Don't expect dance beats on this one, although the boys dabble in snare-intensive English techno sound in "Hangar 84." The real focus in this album is on the open roar of tracks like "Whiteout." Play the album at any chess club meeting and watch the moshpit break out by the guacamole.

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One Of The Best & Most Underrated Fall Classics
Outrageously underrated
Fantastic!
The mighty Fall rock again in their own way!
one of the greatest

The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
Manufacturer: Matador Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1994-08-19

Tracks:

Ladybird
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I'm Going To Spain
It's A Curse
Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
Service
The League Of Bald-Headed Men
A Past Gone Mad
Light/Fireworks
Why Are People Grudgeful?
League Moon Monkey Mix

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With 22 albums to his credit since 1977, the question you have to ask about any new release by Mark E. Smith is: How is this Fall album different from all others? The Infotainment Scan is the first release under the strange pact between Matador and Atlantic Records, but there's nothing new or noteworthy about the English group's tuneless drones and Smith's odd monotone vocals (he singsa lika thissa). Smith pursues his usual Kafka/1984 fantasies on songs such as "Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room" and "Ladybird (Green Grass)" as the latest in an ever-changing cast of sidemen dutifully churn along, but it's all been done better before. Try the 1990 compilation 458489 A-Sides. --Jim DeRogatis

Customer Reviews:

One Of The Best & Most Underrated Fall Classics.......2005-11-07

Take away track twelve "The Monkey Moon Mix" and this is a perfect record. The first five tracks are outstanding culminized by the phenomenal "It's A Curse" which despite being about a minute too long is one of my all time favorite Fall tracks. The Infotainment Scan is the first release after Brix Smith either left or was booted out of the band and despite her absence the polished sound that she helped to develop is quite evident. One of the highlights is a cover song called "I'm Going To Spain" which if you surf the net can be found on a compilation record of the ten worst songs ever written. Personally I've never heard the origibnal bit Mark E. Smith somehow mangaged to take what apparently was a piece of crap and turn it into what sounds like an all-time radio classic (although ironically the song never really received any airplay). As I said one of my favorite Fall cd's and well worth the money spent.

Outrageously underrated.......2005-04-17

A sadly obscured, yet high quality album. Is there any bad MES album? But, to give people the feel for it, I would say the songs largely resemble that of 'Athlete Cured' from the Frenz Experiment. Slightly more subtle with techno intermixed here and there. But of course the same wonderful MES stream of consciousness vocals. Deserves to be in any fan's collection.

Fantastic!.......2003-08-29

It's really bizarre to think that this LP has managed to disappear for the most part under the wealth of The Fall's other work. This is a great record, with inspired covers--particularly of Scratch Perry's "Why are People so Grudgeful?" It's a surprisingly upbeat record; Mark E. Smith even has a quasi-ballad with "I'm Going to Spain." Also recommended (if you can find it), The Fall's LP "Middle Class Revolt", also on Matador Records.

The mighty Fall rock again in their own way!.......2000-05-05

This superb 1993 release from Britain's finest and most original band The Fall is a prime example of their developing 1990s sound which at this time was dabbling into techno and breakbeats(most notably here on WHY ARE PEOPLE GRUDGEFUL - a cover version so I've heard, and A PAST GONE MAD LIGHT), yet still maintaining its trademarkk sounds - repetitive chugging chord-laden guitar riffs, distorted bass and Mark E. Smith ranting! And quite rightly so as well! Their cover of LOST IN MUSIC, an old Sister Sledge 1970s disco song is a good laugh - how pleasurable it is to hear a cheesy dance record such as this get typical Fall treatment - IT'S A CURSE would make even the most miserable gothic dance with its upbeat darkness, PARANOID MAN . . . is simply a hilarious pastiche of people who are so self-conscious and self-obsessed its unreal, GLAM RACKET is an attack on retro teenagers who were not around in the 1970s to appreciate it properly and THE LEAGUE OF BALD-HEADED MEN is a throwback to one of The Fall's earliest songs - REPETITION, the driving bassline is almost the same note progression. And there's more than just these highlights. Overall, one for those who are diehard Fall fans, and a good one for those unfamiliar with this wonderful and innovative post-punk act to start off with Difficult to fault.

one of the greatest.......1999-08-22

I do not comprehand the guy who wrote amazon review hence this one. Infotainment was my least favorite Fall, after one month the favorite. This LP was realesed 91, wayyy ahead of anything at the time. Could be realesed 2010 and still would be. It just sounds different from early Fall. But say it is bad(it's not)The worst Fall record would still beat ANYTHING out there, some classical excluded ( B.the 9th, all of Gorecky) "i have forotten what others are still trying to grasp" - Mark E. Smith. Appropriate as far as popular music goes. To the gent who wrote one of the above reviews, NO, you can't sing along to Fall.

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"Arid" Al is happy!!

The Infotainment Scan
The Fall
Manufacturer: Castle Us
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Tracks:

Ladybird (Green Grass)
Lost In Music
Glam-Racket
I'm Going To Spain
It's A Curse
Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
Service
The League Of Bald-Headed Men
A Past Gone Mad
Light/Fireworks
Why Are People Grudgeful?
League Moon Monkey Mix

Tracks:

Ladybird (Green Grass)
Strychnine
Service
Paranois Man In Cheap Sh*t Room
Glam Racket
War
15 Ways
A Past Gone Mad
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Glam Racket
The Re-Mixer
Lost In Music
A Past Gone Mad (Alternate Version)
Instrumental Outtake
Service (Instrumental Demo)
Glam Racket (Instrumental Demo)
Los In Music (Mix 3)
Lost In Music (Mix 7)
Lost In Music (Mix 14)

Customer Reviews:

"Arid" Al is happy!!.......2006-05-03

Years ago I started listening to Infotainment Scan with headphones at work. I sat behind my computer doing CAD design, with this album pumping through the phones. It became a solid favorite album from the Fall, if not an all time favorite. I infected others with this record, and when they lost thier copies they found it out of print.

It's swell that this new version exists. It sounds excellent, at the moment I can't fault anything in the sound. And extra tracks can be fun. This is easily my fave Fall album period. (and I have most of them) Okay, real fookfaces prefer Hex or Perverted, but this is the one for me. Grab it while it exists.

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One Of The Best & Most Underrated Fall Classics
Outrageously underrated
Fantastic!
The mighty Fall rock again in their own way!
one of the greatest

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Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

One Of The Best & Most Underrated Fall Classics.......2005-11-07

Outrageously underrated.......2005-04-17

Fantastic!.......2003-08-29

The mighty Fall rock again in their own way!.......2000-05-05

one of the greatest.......1999-08-22

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Acoustic Kindergarten
Big Street
Manufacturer: Ezra Infotainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000QSBICK

Product Description

Acoustic Kindergarten is the debut cd by Big street m.p. Musically it is a mix of pop, jazz, soul and westcoast music. They have their unique style but you can hear influences from different artists like Sting, Michel Ruff, Bill Cantos, Sade, Shawn Mcdonald. They have recieved a lot of good feedback already for the songs Stay and Mercy remix. With a lot of radio airplay in the U.K., Australia, Austria, The Netherlands, California just to mention a few.

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The Infotainment Scan
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Manufacturer: Castle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000C4A1GM
Release Date: 2006-02-06

Tracks:

Ladybird (Green Grass)
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Service
League of Bald-Headed Men
Past Gone Mad
Light/Fireworks
Why Are People Grudgeful? [*]
League Moon Monkey Mix [*]

Album Description

2 CD set includes 21 total bonus tracks. Details TBA. Castle. 2006.

Album Details

Anyone who Thought They Had the Fall Pegged as an Indie Rock Band Must have Gulped When Mark E. Smith Led them Into the Glitzier Surroundings of Dance Music. But Even When They were Borrowing Songs from Lee Perry and Sister Sledge, They Still Sounded Unmistakably Like the Fall, as this Album from 1993 Proves. The Bonus CD Rounds Up Singles, Radio Sessions and Out-takes from this Strange but Wonderful Era.

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THE DEFINATE CHAOS LANDSCAPE

Infotainment
Pitch Shifter
Manufacturer: Earac
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

Introductory Disclaimer
Underachiever
(We're Behaving Like) Insects
Virus
Product Placement
(Harmless) Interlude
Bloodsweatsaliva
Hangar 84
Whiteout
Phoenixology
Pitch Sampler Vol. I [78 Samples]
Pitch Sampler Vol. II [45 Samples]

Customer Reviews:

THE DEFINATE CHAOS LANDSCAPE.......1999-12-16

with the driving force of classic punk and hardcore metal fused with the caustic atmosphere of industrial and the fat chest beating beats of hip hop and elctronica,infotainment really is a innovative gem.pitchshifter have progressed and developed in leaps and bounds since their mighty days in the deathcore buisness.infotainment slams and attacks not letting the aural acrobatics stop until the very absolute end of the cd.driving frothy,fuzzy,intoxicating guitars combine with animalistic roars fusing with beat box distorto neo techno flourishes,this is non stop:the lyrics delve deep into social highs and lows difusing the exact moral decay of societys unjust profanities.hip hop beats kicking and punching while every sample and synth line zooms in and out of the chaos landscape that is infotainment post modern punk industrial grind for the mixed frases of the cosmopolitin sledgehammer speech of todays normals.amazing crushing obliterating.so you think you've heard heavy?,you think last nights rave was bouncy?,you think you know the street sass of hip hop?,even the angst that rips at your skull?:INFOTAINMENT is the latter and even more it is a masterpiece so huge,monumental,powerful.this pummels the brain assualts the senses blasts the speackers.the statue of liberty?,the tower of london?, NO JUST INFOTAINMENT. REVIEW BY ASHER LOCKETZ