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Coil - The Snow EP

Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Breakbeat, Techno, Ambient
Year:
1991

Tracklist

The Snow (Driftmix) 2:35
The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams I) 5:47
The Snow (Out In The Cold) 7:43
The Snow (As Pure As?) 6:33
The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II) 5:57
The Snow 6:48

Versions

Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear
The Snow EP (12", EP) Torso TORSO 12180 Netherlands 1991
The Snow EP (12", EP) Wax Trax! Records WAX 9144 US 1991
The Snow EP (12", EP) Wax Trax! Records WAX 9144 US 1991
The Snow EP (CD, EP) Torso TORSO CD 180 Netherlands 1991
The Snow EP (Cass, EP) Wax Trax! Records WAXCS 8144 US 1991
The Snow (12", Promo) Torso Dance TORSO 12180 DJ Netherlands 1991
The Snow (CD, Maxi) Wax Trax! Records WAXCD 9144 US 1991
The Snow EP (CD, EP) TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records TVT 8644 US 1993
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Review by Min-Ra Jul 03, 2003

referencing The Snow EP, CD, EP, TORSO CD 180

Considering the release date, this was a brilliant step forward in electronic music. Combining big, hard breakbeats with an absolutely eerie sample of an old vocal quartet (Mills Brothers?). If you like any of Jack Dangers / Meat Beat Manifesto, this is one you can not pass up. Start with that Psychic TV / Throbbing gristle acid-born prescience and uneasiness, throw in driving MBM-style breakbeats and Spooky-like synth textures. Top off with one of the most haunting vocal samples ever to grace an electronica album. These are long dead ghosts from the past, voices heard in the howling wind, saying 'All too soon, life had passed. Carpe diem, foolish mortal."