Phoenecia - Brownout

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Abstract, IDM, Experimental

Year:

2001

Tracklist

Eyebrow	7:20	X
Diganesa	6:37	X
Jpace	5:45	X
Oriaca	3:35	X
Suite D256	5:34	X
Ruff Harmonizer	5:03	X
Grrl Trrbl	5:24	X
Biorepo	7:03	X
Hiccup	4:11	X
Odd Job	7:54	X
Non-specific Acoustic Stimulation	5:58
Melfad	9:27	X

Versions

	Title, Format	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	Brownout (CD, Album)	Schematic, Schematic	SCH 018-CD, SCH 018-LP	US	2001
	Brownout (2xLP, Album)	Schematic	SCH 018 LP	US	2001

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Rated 5/5

Review by playbynumbers Aug 28, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

referencing Brownout, 2xLP, Album, SCH 018 LP

Criminally underrated! The best album released on Schematic (except for perhaps o9's full-length), with some of the best production I've ever heard; even the album art is just about perfect. A series of fully realized ambient soundscapes (with some minimal dub/idm elements), and a radical departure from their earlier (and later) stuff. Like walking through cavernous office buildings in a deserted industrial city, in the middle of the night; the most concrete palpable presence of an atmosphere/mood evoked by sound that I can recall having heard ...