When I saw the Biomechanoïd cover art by H.R. Giger, I was disturbed and intrigued enough to seek out this bizarre album, the first release by the German label Colorsound Library. It is composed by Joel Vandroogenbroeck of the experimental/krautrock act Brainticket.
Biomechanoïd is an avant-garde album of electronic sound effects and soundscapes, with snippets of piano and other instruments. The album opens with "Dark Plasma" which effectively brings to mind bubbling, boiling liquids, with a series of strange metallic drones in the background. The two album highlights for me are "Sign from Space" and "Lost Planet". "Sign from Space" is a mind-bending little trip through some dark territory. Odd vibrations and electronic calls are interrupted by screeching signals from another world. It feels like you are getting closer and closer to some secret, but then it vanishes. It’s pretty cool. “Lost Planet” is an amazing sci-fi synthesizer freak-out that makes me picture ascending from outer space to the surface of some terrifying but beautiful world. I also enjoyed the album closer “Galaxy Recall”, a two minute hypnotism. I'm curious to know what other library albums by Vandroogenbroeck sound like. Let the search commence.
Biomechanoïd is an avant-garde album of electronic sound effects and soundscapes, with snippets of piano and other instruments. The album opens with "Dark Plasma" which effectively brings to mind bubbling, boiling liquids, with a series of strange metallic drones in the background. The two album highlights for me are "Sign from Space" and "Lost Planet". "Sign from Space" is a mind-bending little trip through some dark territory. Odd vibrations and electronic calls are interrupted by screeching signals from another world. It feels like you are getting closer and closer to some secret, but then it vanishes. It’s pretty cool. “Lost Planet” is an amazing sci-fi synthesizer freak-out that makes me picture ascending from outer space to the surface of some terrifying but beautiful world. I also enjoyed the album closer “Galaxy Recall”, a two minute hypnotism. I'm curious to know what other library albums by Vandroogenbroeck sound like. Let the search commence.
Year of Release: 1980
Label:Colorsound
Catalog #: CS01
Genres: Electronic, Library Music, Avant-garde, Ambient, Noise
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 192kbps
Label:Colorsound
Catalog #: CS01
Genres: Electronic, Library Music, Avant-garde, Ambient, Noise
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 192kbps
Track list:
A1 Dark Plasma 4:30
A2 Elements 4:55
A3 Sign From Space 4:30
A4 Strange Lady 3:00
A5 Plastic Gnome 2:05
B1 Voices 1:46
B2 Metallic Agony 5:40
B3 Lost Planet 5:30
B4 Asteroids 2:20
B5 Interstellar Insects 2:28
B6 Galaxy Recall 2:07
A1 Dark Plasma 4:30
A2 Elements 4:55
A3 Sign From Space 4:30
A4 Strange Lady 3:00
A5 Plastic Gnome 2:05
B1 Voices 1:46
B2 Metallic Agony 5:40
B3 Lost Planet 5:30
B4 Asteroids 2:20
B5 Interstellar Insects 2:28
B6 Galaxy Recall 2:07
Download: Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Biomechanoïd (CS01 - 1980)
Download Size: 60MB
Download Size: 60MB
@Strange Ranger: Great post my friend. Ironically enough I was listening to this very album earlier today, and added it to my list of library music albums to post. I was also listening to a couple of albums he released several years later under the alias of V.B.D. Joel on Coloursound in 1988, "California - Industrial and Scenic Moods" (CS 78) and "AVision" (CS 79)
ReplyDelete@Zer0_II: You see, we have a connection here!
ReplyDeleteI listened to another one of his Colorsound albums the other night, also under V.B.D. Joel, called "Birth of Earth"(CS 7). Some very nice tracks on that one. I think I might like it more than "Biomechanoïd".
Hi have just discovered your fine blog and am loving it! To have the chance to listen to another album by sciortino is amazing! Chronoradial being one of my all time faves! Have you by chance heard vandroogenbroeks contemporary pastoral and ethnic sounds? It's my favorite of his and an early coloursound, cs002 I believe. Thankyou for all you're efforts.
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