Mother-Unit - Brain-Massage (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC, CUE+LOG | 291 MB | Full Scans (300dpi) | Hotfile/ Fileserve
Instrumental/ Progressive/ Psychedelic Rock | Stickman Records, Psychobabble 066
Formed by 35007 co-founder and guitar player, Bertus Fridael. Instrumental & heavy atmospheric psychedelic rock, in the likes of 35007, Monkey3, Gomer Pyle, Farflung,…
EAC Rip | FLAC, CUE+LOG | 291 MB | Full Scans (300dpi) | Hotfile/ Fileserve
Instrumental/ Progressive/ Psychedelic Rock | Stickman Records, Psychobabble 066
Formed by 35007 co-founder and guitar player, Bertus Fridael. Instrumental & heavy atmospheric psychedelic rock, in the likes of 35007, Monkey3, Gomer Pyle, Farflung,…
Praise for Mother-Unit‘s Brain-Massage from Stonerrock.com: Imagine my surprise hearing nothing about this post 35007 project until it was available for sale in ATH. But perhaps that’s the best way, so I could order a copy of it right then, which I did. Just the same, the former members of the mysterious 35007 seem to keep a deliberately low profile and always let the music speak for itself (few photos exist online of the band, and the only shot of any of them adorns just one of their five studio albums). So former 35007 guitar player Bertus Fridael (who played on all albums but Phase V) has approached his new project Mother-Unit with similar dynamics.
And that is certainly what you feel in taking the journey of his first album Brain-Massage. Fridael has not abandoned the aesthetics that made him soar with his former band. As a reference point, I would mostly associate this album with the Sea of Tranquility era of 35007. Tasteful electronic sounds tease and soothe and build toward guitar crunch crescendos that meditate on repetitive riffing to ‘massage the brain’.
Largely the album succeeds, but does somehow fall just short of the greatness that 35007 achieved. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it may be the fourth and final song on the album that has an oddly irritating quality at times and I don’t know why. So as the closer of a four-song record, that does stick out unfortunately. That being said, it shouldn’t take away from Tracks 1 – 3 for those do hit the mark. Fans of 35007 listen up, you need to check this one out. Recommended.-Roadburn.com
Tracklist:
1. Birth-Fate-Death (10:23)
2. Brain-Massage (11:35)
3. Fingerprint-Chemistry (14:45)
4. From The Source-Into The Mind (8:34)
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
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Mother-Unit / Brain-Massage
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EAC extraction logfile from 27. August 2010, 15:04
Mother-Unit / Brain-Massage
Used drive : _NEC DVD+-RW ND-3650A Adapter: 4 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s
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3 | 21:58.71 | 14:45.55 | 98921 | 165350
4 | 36:44.51 | 8:34.08 | 165351 | 203908
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Line-up:
Bertus Fridael - Guitar, Keyboard
Hans Van De Perre - Drums
Niek Bosch - Bass
Shirley Holinsky - Bass on Fingerprint-Chemistry
Music by Fridael, Produced by Fridael
Recorded at the Lab Van Acoustiek Studio, spring 2009
Engineered and co-produced by Mark Van Der Heijden
Mastered by Peer Raven