Prodigal Son

I.E.M. - Arcadia Son

A few months back, I featured the debut vinyl LP by Incredible Expanding Mindfuck. Here is their last, not quite so rare but important all the same. Wilson continues to mix krautrock, jazz, noise and progressive influences with ethnic rhythms, bountiful samples and space-rock references. The album revolves around a huge centre-piece Shadow Of A Twisted Hand Across My House, a majestic and brooding mix of throbbing funk bass, choral strings, live drums and sax which develops into 13 minutes of spacey electronics. The smokey tribal beats of Cicadian Haze transport you to some far off rain forest, We Are Not Alone dives headlong into space rock territory, Politician is a sleazy europorn video parody (complete with dodgy tracking). The title track Arcadian Son is a dubby haze of progressive jazz-rock and a retreat to the Krautrock territory of bands like Can.

Ripped from a compact disc album released on Headphone Dust (IEM2) in 2002 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.
1. Wreck
2. Beth Krasky
3. We Are Not Alone
4. Cicadian HAze
5. Politician
6. Arcadian Son
7. Shadow Of A Twisted Hand Across My House
8. Goldilocks Age 4

Expandable Mind....what...?

I.E.M. - Incredible Expanding Mindfuck

From a rare vinyl LP (only 500 copies ever pressed) multi-instrumentalist I.E.M. blends noise, atmospherics, experimentation, space rock and krautrock into four very different pieces of music. It is a tribute to the great krautrock artists such as Can and Neu! who were the key exponents behind experimental music from the mid-sixties and well into the seventies. These influences penetrated also in industrial and post-punk music. Between 1996 and 2001, the three albums by I.E.M. were to reach just a tiny audience. So here is the first, pounding drums and driving basslines on The Gospel According To.. mix it with samples, film dialogues and spaced-out guitar solos (23 Skidoo anyone?). ..Emma Peel is a cosmic journey from Stockhausen through to galactic electronica and all the way back again, Fie Kesh saunters into a dubby wasteland of sound where steel strings strum a hypnotic melody. And finally my favourite, the bouncing punk of Deafman deserves to be played loud and and then even louder.

Those nice folks at Burning Shed have made the entire I.E.M. back catelogue available as FLAC in their webstore. If you need to hear more, just stroll here

Ripped from a vinyl album released on Chromatic Records (CHR 001) to high resolution 24-bit 96000Hz audio in the lossless flac format.
A1. The Gospel According To The I.E.M.
A2. The Last Will And Testament Of Emma Peel
B1. Fie Kesh
B2. Deafman