MARTIN REV
MARTIN REV "CHEYENNE" CD
ME-2009
LTD TO 1000 COPIES
$15.00
Newly remastered version of Martin Rev's classic "cheyenne" album. This amazing album is from one half of the legendary NY electro/punk group suicide and features 3 bonus trks never before released. Produced by cars frontman Ric Ocasek, Martin Rev and Charles Ball. Don't miss out on your chance to own this classic album.
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MARTIN REV "CLOUDS OF GLORY" lp
ME-2024
LTD TO 500 COPIES
$20.00 COMING SOON!
LINER NOTES (WEB ONLY) BY SONIC BOOM (SPACEMEN 3/SPECTRUM)
MARTIN REV (nee SUICIDE) - Cheyenne
The history of electronic music in popular music culture is overshadowed by its 3 earliest & most succinct exponents : The WHITE NOISE , The SILVER APPLES & of course thee legendary SUICIDE . Martin Rev , who's work you hold here is the powerhouse that runs the music & rythmns of the latter. All 3 bands somehow evolved out of the primordial ferment of new technology & psychedelic awareness that would simultaneously spawn the first synthesisers . What's perhaps most astounding about all 3 is the fact they all create astounding music using relatively primitive equipment , and none more elegantly so than Rev himself. As Marty Suicide in the early Seventies he dosed up basic keyboards & early drum machines to produce stunning , minimal workouts - intense . psychedelic . & threatening . Suicide never claimed they were music . Ofcourse it is ............... but somehow the approach is more visceral , more uptight . more street than any of their contempories In both his work with Suicide and on his own pioneering solo discs Rev effortlessly captures the sounds of New Yorks cavernous avenues - filtering , phasing & modulating the sounds of the Empire city . Making tangible the very essence of living in the bright neon & dark shadows of their unique abode. From their early stark , entancing recordings , Suicide gradually layered & wove ever more complex rythmns & tones into their music , somehow maintaining its minimalist/maximalist mood . And that is essentially what we get to observe here . Some of the legendary 2nd Suicide l.p.'s best track. with radically differant instrumental mixes allowing an insight to the complexities of the original arrangements whilst letting us glimpse an alternate perspective . Six of the l.p.'s best songs (Harlem , Touch me , Sweetheart , Fast Money music , Diamonds Furcoats Champagne & Shadazz ) get Rev's fingers twitching all over them . As Suicide's sole music composer he has unsurprisingly created an lp that sounds as unique & fresh & timeless now , as it did in those distant dark early 1980's . For extra spice here , were also served what sounds like an out-take from Alan Vega/ Martin Rev / Suicide disc - the 2nd l.p.'s full title - in the groove heavy Dakota . It's one of several songs from these sessions that are perhaps the best & closest precedent to what would 10+ years later become the phenomena known as Techno or Rave .The real parents of that whole sound was surely these guys - somehow conspicuous by their abscence from any of those genres artists props & credits. Rounding out the whole package here , are five of Rev's most acid drenched & often disconcertingly rythmnless pieces . The serene Wings Of The Wind , & the subway-journey like trip we take in the wee hours in Little Rock standing tall amongst them . These songs from Rev's early solo work with the Car's Ric Ocasek - a man heavily involved with Suicide - & Soft Cell's Charles Ball stand as supreme electronic workouts , easily as rewarding as any of Suicide's previous oevre and a fitting mixer for the coctail here presented. Thankfully , Martin Rev is slowly but surely being recognised as the roots of electronic pop/rock music ,.With many contemporay acts , such as LCD Sound System , paying obvious homage . Not a moment too soon . Whether discussing electronic dance , pop or rock it is impossible to remain ignorant to the massive & groundbreaking input and influence he has had . Both Rev & Suicide will continue to be seen for their unrivalled input into rock 'n' roll & its warped evolution . But meanwhile . Remember . They never said they were music , they are SUICIDE.
sonic boom feb/2007/earth
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