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| TITLE: |
BOMBARDIER LIVE |
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| ARTIST: |
Bombardier |
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| MATRIX: |
D13.005 |
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| RELEASED: |
02/2003 |
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| FORMAT: |
CD |
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TRACKS: |
Resistance
Twitch
Sickness
Pale
Shapeshifter
Incinerator
Radio Tower
Exorcism Threshold
Kamphetamine
Stomach
Follow My Rules
White Heat
DC
FBI
Bleed
Chamber
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| DESCRIPTION: |
The intent of this disc was to
capture the intensity and presence of Bombardier's live performances.
Beginning with the now watershed performance at Rage, a punk
and gabber show organized by Liz Munger at the Wesley Foundation
in Iowa City, Bombardier's live beats have been accompanied,
pushed, and altered by his live screaming. Over time the intensity
has become more focused and powerful from those early drunken
yells in '97, culminating in 2 powerful performances: The Safety
in Numbers Festival in New York at Tonic in 2001, and the TRUST
Festival in Northern California in 2002. This disc is contains
live recordings from those sets, mixed together to recreate
the live Bombardier sound. |
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| REVIEWS: |
Following on from his last, somewhat relaxed,
7" release on Eupholus, Bombardier is back on CD, doing what
he does best: 300mph beat-driven rage. A document of a performance
at the New York SIN Festival in 2001, Live showcases Bombardier
at his most intense and downright punishing - the photograph
on the front cover capturing that feeling perfectly, showing
Snell sweating over his Fostex and letting out an almighty
primal scream. It's a wild ride - so hold on tight.
Opening to the sound of mild static and fractured beats, we
could almost be listening to Snell's atmospheric 13th Hour
project, but slowly and steadily, the incessant kicks are brought
in and raised through allegro stabbing passages, accented with
overdriven synths, to chaotic refrains of noise and bass and
ultimately crescendoing to pummelling stretches of gabba and
breakcore madness. It takes about 20 minutes for the set to
get into full flow, before which we find Bombardier teasing
us with the occasional hectic section, but otherwise remaining
tense and fractured. As soon as he gets into his trademark
adrenaline grooves, though, he never relents - fixing us to
the spot with the sheer concentration of the beats.
After a few movements of panic-ridden, but ultimately run-of-the-mill
breakcore, Bombardier gives the screw another twist and gives
the set a lethal injection of guitar samples and roaring live
vocals. At this point he reaches the same giddy heights as
fellow beats 'n' samples mangler Sonic Dragolgo, where often
it becomes too much to follow what he is doing and we are resigned
to staring open-jawed at the speakers, totally overpowered
by the music.
This is an absolute stormer of a CD that I can't get enough
of lately. I find it impossible to fault the performance on
here, as it flows so superbly from near silence to all-out
chaos, turning up our adrenaline levels with it. If there is
a flaw in the album it is in the production, which just seems
to have been a little overpowered at times, and the fact that
no way on earth can a home stereo recreate the experience of
having these enormous beats crashing through a 20k PA at a
club. If ever there was an advert to see this act live, this
CD is it. Simply put - it rocks.
-Gavin Lees (Immanence)
A great spooky intro of foreboding evil...voices...a nervous
909 hardcore beat..."there's no resisting us" What a trip!!!
Damn, this goes all over, never stays in one place too long
with great change ups in beat patterns... Jason gives you a
touch of breathing room before banging it out again. This is
a totally rockin' cd that was recorded live in NYC at Tonic
during the SIN Festival, and at Trust held in the Mendocino
National Forest. 14 tracks that blend into each other for a
real emotional roller coaster of a ride!
-Linda Leigh (Technotica)
"Bombardier Live"'s single 47 minute track may be a daunting
one, but this is straight up BOWL music (you know VOT kind!).
This is it noisenheimers, the most frenetic representation
of Jason's CRUSHCORE. No beloved (though extremely warped)
cliches are left out as the listener sonically o.d.'s on HEARTLESS
MALFUNCTIONING INDUSTRIAL DOOM! It blows my fucking MIND that
Jason mixed all this crazy shit LIVE (and still found the time
to roar some shout outs of CYNICAL HATE). Completely mindblowing
and the most car-bangable fun disc.
-Sean/Noizepug73 (Damaging
Noise zine)
A live CD from Bombardier releases on Low Res Records. This
was recorded at the SIN Festival, Tonic NYC August 2001. Once
again, I love Jason's sets. But I have some what persona bias
to this Live CD. 2 of my favorite tracks, which happen to be
the ones I released on Black Monolith (BMR04), are included
within this performance. This set is a mixture of 4/4 hardcore
and darkstep breaks. It is very noisy, very dirty and very
loud. If you put this on a good system and crank it up you
can get a reasonable representation of how Jason sounds live.
The only thing you would lack is seeing the energy he performs
with when he screams on the microphone. This is a great CD
to get if you like continuous mixes of music. The over all
quality is no where near a mastered track and CD compilation,
but it is up to par, and better then some DJ mixes you would
hear. For a live set it is great. The one thing I love about
the cover is the picture of Bombardier screaming into the microphone.
Knowing full well he is a Minor Threat fan, I look up and see
this picture. If you shaved his head, it looks no different
then one of the famous images of Ian Mc Kay screaming all bloody
at an hold school hardcore show back in DC.
This is a nice affordable CD to add to your collection and
I suggest you get it.
-Robert Skinner (Black
Monolith)
With three different monikers and quite a few releases, both
on Low Res, Eupholus or his own Division 13 , Jason Snell (DJ
Bombardier)'s music has become a synonym for a very particular
brand of hardcore techno, which he defines with a specific
shade with each of his projects. Following shortly the "2002
Tour" CDR, in which was presented a recording of one of the
set he played with Eupholus 's Matt Demmon last year, here
comes another live CD, this time signed Bombardier alone. And
first thing to say, this live CDR doesn't contain any track
also featured on "2002 tour".
While more and more electronic concerts I see are basically
one guy sitting behind a laptop, it would appear that this
is far from being what you get at a Bombardier concert, judging
from the photo showing Jason Snell screaming and sweating on
the cover of this release. And indeed, here is not music to
sit and sip a cocktail to. Past the intro, what we get here
is hard, bouncing and pounding beats mixed with Bombardier's
personal brand of distorted samples, sweeping tones and long
build up.
It might feel a bit weird to listen to such a hard and dancey
set at home, all the more since Jason Snell has here chosen
to offer you a recording which definitely does sound like a
live set (contrary to his "L'excommunie" CD, also a continuous
mix, but this time with a studio sound). And since, there could
probably be not better advertisment (or testimony) from a Bombardier
concert. Listened to loud enough, this CDR is sure to make
you headbang or tap the rhythms with your feet. This set is
a very hard one, and while I do not know if Jason Snell has
ever performed with the likes of Converter or WinterkÕlte,
this recording shows that he has nothing to envy to this act
in regards to heavyness and "bouncyness". And on top of this,
Bombardier's set appears not to be just a guy pressing a "play" button,
as the versions appearing on this CDR are all slightly differrent
from the originals, and that you even get Mister Snell's screaming
over several tracks toward the end of his show.
Maybe not the best thing to discover DJ Bombardier and Jason
Snell's music, this live CDR should definitely appeal to people
who have already enjoyed either his studio material or his
concerts. Plus, it definitely works as a warning: don't miss
him if he comes round your next of the woods.
-Nicolas Chevreux (Ad
Noiseam)
Gritty, textured, growling, badass.
-Machine
Fuck I got you (sic) package!!!! You crazy MF thats fucking
great! So powerfull (sic) set and music !!!!! GREAT
-Noize Punishment (Hardliner
Recordings)
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