This compilation pays homage to the music of Peter Thomas, a German composer who was featured in my last "Sci-Fi September" post.
In the late nineties it seems that many musicians started to pay attention to Peter Thomas' work. Someone had the idea to make a remix album honoring his past work. Thomas dug up some samples and sent them out to a variety of artists to see what they would come up with. The album itself features two discs. The first disc features the remixes that were contributed by the chosen artists. The second disc is rather cool as it pulls back the curtain for the listener and lets us hear the original source material.
The music found on the album shows off the versatility of the source materials. One moment you are floating through Sterolab's "Blaue Milch" and pretty soon you are faced with the fuzz-filled Momus track "Dub in My Club" with a variety of twists and turns found throughout. An excellent and worthwhile compilation if you are willing to put in the time to listen.
Disc 1
1. Dauerfisch - Es lauft
2. Stereolab - Blaue Milch
3. The Sons of Silence - There is No Such Thing as Bad Weather
4. Mina - P.etit.e
5. Saint Etienne - Chaos in the Gym
6. Yoshinori Sunahara - PTvsYS
7. Brezel Goring - Raumpatrouille Opium
8. John McEntire - Neutron
9. Tipsy - Evil Guitar
10. Ronnie & Clyde - Zero One
11. High Llamas - The Bells of Senegal
12. Mr. Scruff - Ron's Newt
13. Stock, Hausen & Walkmen - Space Rocks
14. Momus - Dub in My Club
15. Coldcut - Peter In Space
16. Schneider TM - Neukoment
17. Peter Thomas & The Maxwell Implosion - Warp Back to Earth
Disc 2 (Peter Thomas Samples):
1. Onanirato
2. Synthesizer's Melody
3. Zero Zoom Novembra
4. Flirtation
5. Love 71
6. Dark Nature
7. Apartmenthouse
8. Espionage Under Water
9. Galaxy Fall Out
10. Nuclear Chemistry
11. Neutron
12. Lobby and Supercomputer
13. Aum
14. Leukozyt
15. Communication in Hyperspace
16. Little Computer
17. Tremolo Elecktro
18. Heptaeder
19. Exiting Two Tones
20. EKG
21. Phasing Violins
22. Kybernetiker in Eile
23. Fotus Irrationales
24. Basso Secco
25. Freelance Dance
26. Sub Deep Frequencies in Violet
27. Saekular Plasma
28. Iterierte Brush Sequence
29. Brush Sequence
In the late nineties it seems that many musicians started to pay attention to Peter Thomas' work. Someone had the idea to make a remix album honoring his past work. Thomas dug up some samples and sent them out to a variety of artists to see what they would come up with. The album itself features two discs. The first disc features the remixes that were contributed by the chosen artists. The second disc is rather cool as it pulls back the curtain for the listener and lets us hear the original source material.
The music found on the album shows off the versatility of the source materials. One moment you are floating through Sterolab's "Blaue Milch" and pretty soon you are faced with the fuzz-filled Momus track "Dub in My Club" with a variety of twists and turns found throughout. An excellent and worthwhile compilation if you are willing to put in the time to listen.
Tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Dauerfisch - Es lauft
2. Stereolab - Blaue Milch
3. The Sons of Silence - There is No Such Thing as Bad Weather
4. Mina - P.etit.e
5. Saint Etienne - Chaos in the Gym
6. Yoshinori Sunahara - PTvsYS
7. Brezel Goring - Raumpatrouille Opium
8. John McEntire - Neutron
9. Tipsy - Evil Guitar
10. Ronnie & Clyde - Zero One
11. High Llamas - The Bells of Senegal
12. Mr. Scruff - Ron's Newt
13. Stock, Hausen & Walkmen - Space Rocks
14. Momus - Dub in My Club
15. Coldcut - Peter In Space
16. Schneider TM - Neukoment
17. Peter Thomas & The Maxwell Implosion - Warp Back to Earth
Disc 2 (Peter Thomas Samples):
1. Onanirato
2. Synthesizer's Melody
3. Zero Zoom Novembra
4. Flirtation
5. Love 71
6. Dark Nature
7. Apartmenthouse
8. Espionage Under Water
9. Galaxy Fall Out
10. Nuclear Chemistry
11. Neutron
12. Lobby and Supercomputer
13. Aum
14. Leukozyt
15. Communication in Hyperspace
16. Little Computer
17. Tremolo Elecktro
18. Heptaeder
19. Exiting Two Tones
20. EKG
21. Phasing Violins
22. Kybernetiker in Eile
23. Fotus Irrationales
24. Basso Secco
25. Freelance Dance
26. Sub Deep Frequencies in Violet
27. Saekular Plasma
28. Iterierte Brush Sequence
29. Brush Sequence
Download: Warp Back to Earth - Disc 1
Download Size: 170MB
Download: Warp Back to Earth - Disc 2
Download Size: 127MB
Download Size: 170MB
Download: Warp Back to Earth - Disc 2
Download Size: 127MB
Thanks for all the wonderful Peter Thomas music....wonderful!
ReplyDeleteNo problem. I'm glad to find a fellow Peter Thomas fan. If you ever get a chance (and haven't already) I strongly suggest hunting down the Raumpatrouille Orion soundtracks (there is one for the TV series and one for the film). Excellent stuff.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting. I found this CD in a Chicago record store about 10 years ago but lord knows where it is now. It's awesome to find it again. I wish there were more albums like this that mixed up the old and the new... Don't just USE your samples, LOVE them. As a matter of fact, this was one of the albums that got me turned on to 60s-70s soundtrack/library music, I originally bought it because of the 1st CD.
ReplyDeleteA side note to anyone out there in the great wide internet who enjoyed this album, I'd also recommend looking up the Luke Vibert "Nuggets" and "Further Nuggets" compilations.