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Illusion Of Safety

Real Name:
Dan Burke
Profile:
Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Dan Burke since 1983, working with numerous individuals in various combinations of one to 12 members. Their work has been continually evolving, never settling into an easy niche. Each collaborator has brought their own unique perspective to the project. Since 1991 IOS have released 15 CDs on labels such as Silent, Odd Size, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold, Tesco, and Complacency. At times their work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, electronica, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics.
Sites:
illusionofsafety.com, MySpace
Members:
Chris Block, Dan Burke, James Johnson, Jim O'Rourke, Kurt Griesch, Mark Klein, Mark Sorensen, Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones
In Groups:
City Of Safety, Illusion Of Worms, R.I.G.
Variations:
All | Illusion Of Safety | Donald R Schmitt | I.O.S. | IOS
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Discography

Releases:
Ecstatic Crisis (Cass)   Complacency 1986
It's A Dead Dog (Cass)   Complacency 1986
My Mind Is Killing Me (Cass)   Complacency 1986
Live Sound Of IOS Post Effects (Cass)   Complacency 1987
Violence And Geography (Cass, C50)   Complacency 1987
Confusion (Cass)   Deaf Eye 1988
Live COS 7/7/88 (Cass)   Big Body Parts 1988
More Altitude Than Attitude: IOS At 14,000 Feet (Cass)   We Never Sleep 1988
More Violence And Geography ◄ (3 versions)   Complacency ... 1988
Repairs (Cass, C60)   Sound Of Pig 1988
In 70 Countries (Cass)   Complacency 1989
Milago - Live In Milwaukee & Chicago July 1989 (Cass)   Big Body Parts 1989
Untitled (LP)   Complacency 1989
WNS07C18 (2xCass, Ltd)   We Never Sleep 1989
Fifteen (Cass)   Complacency 1990
Finance And Ideology (Cass)   Complacency 1990
Finite Material Context ◄ (2 versions)   Complacency 1990
IOS-BCO (Cass)   Realization Recordings 1990
Step Into The Step (Cass, C46)   Harsh Reality Music 1990
Historical (CD)   Staalplaat 1991
Cancer (CD)   Tesco Organisation 1992
Inside Agitator (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Complacency ... 1992
Probe (CD, Ltd)   Staalplaat 1992
Fifteen · Finite Material Context (CD)   Functional Organisation 1993
The False Mirror (7")   A State Of Flux 1993
Distraction (CD)   Odd Size 1994
In Our Little Bodies (CD, Album, Ltd)   Old Europa Cafe 1994
Rules Of The Game (CD, Mini, Car)   eM 13n 1994
The Banishing Ritual (7")   Complacency 1994
Water Seeks Its Own Level ◄ (2 versions)   Silent ... 1994
Fin De Siècle (LP)   Korm Plastics 1995
From Nothing To Less (CD)   Complacency 1995
The Nature Of Sand (CD)   Manifold Records 1995
Guru Means Slayer Of Darkness (CD)   Manifold Records 1996
Mort Aux Vaches (CD, Ltd)   Mort Aux Vaches 1996
Schmetterling EP (7", Ltd, EP, Pic)   Syntactic 1996
Kapotte Muziek By Illusion Of Safety (7")   Korm Plastics 1997
Of & The (2xCD)   Soleilmoon Recordings 1997
UFO Crash At Roswell: An Audio Documentary (CD, Album)   Baraka Foundation 1997
Bad Karma (CD, Album)   Soleilmoon Recordings 1998
Mort Aux Vaches (CD, Ltd)   Mort Aux Vaches 1999
...odds (CD)   Not On Label 2000
Beautiful Moments In Four Minutes (5")   Pain Art 2001
Graintext (6xFile, MP3, 128)   No Type 2001
In Opposition To Our Acceleration (CD, Album)   Die Stadt 2001
Untitled (2x7", Ltd)   Die Stadt 2001
Entitled (CDr)   Auf Abwegen 2002
Heartmath / Intro / Col De Vence (7", Ltd)   Die Stadt 2002
Single 20 (File, MP3)   TIBProd. 2003
Time Remaining (CD)   Ossosnossos 2003
In Session (CD, Album, Ltd, Car)   Waystyx 2008
Sedation & Quell (10", Yel)   Crippled Intellect Productions, Complacency 2008
The Need To Now (CDr, Album, Ltd)   Experimedia 2008
Appears On:
Testament (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Ens RRRecords 1988
12/October/1989 (Cass, Mixed, C60)   Psychic Rally 1989
3-90 (Cass, Mixed, C60)   Psychic Rally 1990
Forced Cohesion (Cass) Forced Cohesion Complacency 1990
Stuhlgangblockade N! (LP)   Schimpfluch 1990
Azoic Zone (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Geometrik ... 1993
Mail-Music (Cass, Mixed, C90) Untitled Psychic Rally 1994
Sirocco (CD)   Important Records (2) 2005
RRRadio 7-11 (Cass)   RRRecords  
Tracks Appear On:
Insane Music For Insane People Vol. 21 (Cass, Comp) The Headache, In 70 Co... Insane Music 1987
My Dream Date With Boyd Rice (Cass, Comp, C90) Pretty Sticky, A Girl,... Epitapes 1987
Anciestra (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Re-entry Field One Big Body Parts ... 1988
Musick For The Sloth (Cass, Comp, C60) Repairs Nailed To Sound 1988
Pure And Painless Pleasures (Cass, C60) Untitled John Doe Music 1988
Testament (VHS, Comp) Untitled RRRecords 1988
Testament (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Devices To Be Used RRRecords 1988
Deaftracks 1 (Cass) Sickly Deaf Eye 1989
Ecstasy By Current II (LP) New Game Schizophonia 1989
Rub Out The Word (2xCass, Comp, Ltd) Mae Big Body Parts 1989
Sex On The First Date With Boyd Rice (Cass, Comp, C90) Orchestral Box, Seka +... Epitapes 1989
Tubes And Wires (Cass, Comp, C60) Untitled Nailed To Sound 1989
Acquisition / Conversion (Cass) Untitled A State Of Flux 1990
Assemblage (Cass, Comp) Untitled PBK Recordings 1990
Gears=Sexeight (Cass, Ltd, Comp) "D.D." Empty Records 1990
Objekt No. 4 (CD, Comp) Everythings Ladd-Frith 1990
Our Nebula Incured Vol 6 (Cass, Comp, C90) Live In Ohio Corrosive Tapes 1990
Patience Is A Virtue (Cass, Comp) You Figure It Out Sound Of Pig 1990
Projekt Neue Ordnung (LP, Comp) Experience Tesco Organisation 1990
Put Down Your Pencil (Cass) Speed Brutality Honesty Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 1990
Tape Report Nr. 5 (Cass, C60) Commitment 27 Die Ind 1990
What Is Truth? Volume Three (2xLP, Ltd) Integrity Panic Records & Tapes 1990
A Persons Healthy Guide To Listening (Cass, Ltd) Musikfuck Regelwidrig 1991
Anti White Bastards (Cass, Comp, C60) Off The Mark Korm Plastics 1991
As Yet Untitled (CD) Sirede Realization Recordings 1991
The Chicago Loops (CD) Helen Your Brain, Fore... Sub-Up-Records 1991
Audio Drudge Issue 1 (Cass) What You Want To Be, S... Malignant Records 1992
Neue Muster Volume 8+9 (2xCass, Ltd, Comp + Box) Who Loves Me Baby Tonspur Tapes 1992
Ohren Des Kaiser Hirohito (2xCD, Comp) 9.21.92 Dom 1992
Stanzas On Sexual Hygiene (CD) Jubilation Regelwidrig 1992
Arrhythmia II (CD, Comp) The Line Of Least Resi... Charnel House Productions 1993
Of Sound Mind (Cass, C90) Inside Godsend Magazine 1993
RRR-100 (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Untitled RRRecords 1993
The Great New World In Environment And Acceleration (CD) Every Tyrant A City V2_Archief 1993
Cataclastic Fracture (A Noise Collection) (CD, Comp) Abura Deadline Recordings, Lazy Squid 1994
Compositions In D. Minor (LP, S/Sided) Nothing Promised He De... Gender-Less Kibbutz 1994
Invisible Domains (CD, Comp) Activation Phase Malignant Records 1994
Noise War (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) U.S.W. Test One, U.S.W... Mother Savage Noise Productions ... 1994
Sweet Music (Cass) Animal Shelter Self Abuse Records 1994
The Arbitrary Nature Of Meaning (CD) T.H.W. Isomorphic Records 1994
Macrocephalous Compost II° (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Disaster Area Old Europa Cafe 1995
No Machine Is Silent (2xCass) Live 1/16/93 Club Lowe... Realization Recordings 1995
A Blind Man's Gallery Of Mirrors (CD) Cancer Freedom In A Vacuum 1996
Impulse Issue 8 (Cass) Altered Locations Impulse (2) 1996
Seedmouth (CD, Ltd) The Most Familiar Enemy Cold Spring 1996
Factory Rock (Cass) A Happy Worker Is An A... Metalshaft Productions 1997
Four Years In 30 Seconds (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Center Dirter Promotions 1997
Instant Shoggoth Various Artists Volume One (Cass, Comp, Ltd) Ohme Instant Shoggoth 1997
Release Your Mind Vol. 2 (3xCD, Comp) Amenia Release Entertainment 1997
Régénération - Dégénérescence (2xCD, Comp) Machine 101 Kaon 1997
We Hate You: A Small Tribute to Throbbing Gristle (CD + 7") AciDiscipline, Weeping Jazzassin Records 1997
Sneak Preview Volume One (CDr, Smplr) Untitled Staalplaat 1998
They've Got The Whole World In Their Hands (2xCD) Where Are You, Scene, ... Methods To Survive Network System 1999
Thirteen (CD, Comp, Ltd) Enhanced X-S Artifact Klanggalerie 1999
The Wire Tapper 07 (CD, Comp) Stillpoint Wire Magazine 2001
Asmus Tietchens - Thomas Köner - Illusion Of Safety - Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg - Dittel & Tuttel (3x7", Ltd) Just Die Stadt 2002
Mono::Poly (2xCD) Undefined, Unresolved ... Asphodel, Gench Music 2002
My Malady (CD) Ascariasis Mental Monkey Records 2003
Tribryd: Installation Soundtracks (CD, Ltd) Ground Two Beta-lactam Ring Records 2003
Blind Date (File, MP3, Comp) The Technician’s Dea... Zeromoon 2004
Hungry Ghosts (2xCD) Too Much Of A Good Thi... Mutant Music 2004
Statement 1961 ◄ (3 versions) Ground Once Ironflame 2004
Burned Bridges And Lost Loves (2xCD, Comp) Power Down Bottrop-Boy 2005
Trimix (CD + DVD) Le Gocce Dell'uomo Del... Innova Recordings 2006
Audio Odditions Kompilation III (File, MP3) Grav 1+ Discorporeality Recordings 2008
The Wire Tapper 19 (CD, Comp) Wherewithall (For Laur... Wire Magazine 2008
Rituals Of Sleep (Cass, C90) About Epitapes  
Sick Musings One (Cass) Nihlism Sick Muse Records  
Unofficial Releases:
Live Im C.U.B.A. (CDr)   Not On Label 2001
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Review by Alastis Mar 30, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
Its hard for me to understand how bands like Illusion of Safety (basically Dan Burke alone with revolving cast of musicians) are able to go on for 20+ years. There was virtually no promotion for this band and certainly they are rarely mentioned by those who are into dark ambient or experimental music, although their influence on both genres is enormous. Hopefully Dan Burke will continue to do the same thing for at least another 50 years.
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