Orphx - 0102
Review by Dharita Chokshi
The album 0102 by Orphx is a haunting and immersive experience that transports the listener into a world of dark, brooding soundscapes. The album is a masterful blend of industrial, techno, and ambient music, with each track offering a unique and captivating sonic journey.
From the pulsating beats of "Tension" to the eerie atmospherics of "Rapture", the album is a showcase of Orphx's talent for creating deeply evocative and emotionally charged music. The use of distorted vocals, hypnotic rhythms, and atmospheric textures creates a sense of tension and unease that is both thrilling and unnerving.
The album's standout tracks include "Signal to Noise", a relentless techno banger with a hypnotic bassline and distorted vocals, and "Fragility", a haunting ambient piece that evokes a sense of desolation and despair. The album's closing track, "Elegy", is a beautiful and melancholic piano piece that serves as a fitting conclusion to the album's dark and introspective journey.
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Filename: orphx-0102.rar- MP3 size: 108 mb
- FLAC size: 1371.6 mb
Tracks
| Track | Duration | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Veil Of Dream | 3:52 | |
| Excruciate | 5:01 | |
| Gestation | 2:10 | |
| A La Recherche D'Un Corps | 5:05 | |
| Exposure | 3:30 | |
| An Initial Process | 2:31 | |
| Serial Deaths | 1:33 | |
| Live Fragment (21/10/94) | 5:55 | |
| Oven Run Tongue | 6:37 | |
| Metaplasmic Disjecta | 4:05 | |
| Curved Sea Entrom | 2:43 | |
| Juliette | 2:50 | |
| Beautiful Wreckage | 2:54 | |
| Terminal Posture (Live) | 6:14 | |
| Miasma (Edit) | 3:46 | |
| Conceptus | 3:49 | |
| Distention | 2:36 | |
| Reservoirs Of Infection | 7:23 | |
| The Sodomite (Edit) | 6:24 | |
| A Landscape Of Wounds (Edit) | 6:22 | |
| Lecture 17 | 1:13 | |
| Monophilia | 6:37 | |
| Inhumed | 4:02 | |
| Foreign Signal (Edit) | 7:07 | |
| Operative Treatments | 2:48 | |
| Purification | 6:58 | |
| Accuracy Overloads Procedure | 1:24 |
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Catalog Numbers
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Formats
- 2 × CD
- Compilation
- Remastered
Credits
| Role | Credit |
|---|---|
| Drum Machine | Rich Oddie (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Edited By | Rich Oddie (tracks: 1-11, 1-13) |
| Remastered By | Rich Oddie (tracks: 1-11, 1-13) |
| Mixed By | Rich Oddie (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Mastered By | Rich Oddie (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Performer | Aron West (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Sampler | Christina Sealey (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Sequencer | Aron West (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10) |
| Synthesizer | Aron West (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Percussion | Aron West (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Voice | Rich Oddie (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-13) |
| Tape | Christina Sealey (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10, 2-1 to 2-13) |
Notes
- Edition of 300.
- Disc One: Compiled from Orphx 01, originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes on the Xcreteria label in November 1993. Recorded, mixed and mastered September to November 1993 at The Pit in Dundas, Canada.
- Additional tracks "Veil of Dream" and "Beautiful Wreckage" were originally recorded in June 1994 and reworked and remastered in 2016.
- "Terminal Posture" was recorded live at Sublimatus Studios in Dundas on May 8, 1994, and previously released as "Fragmentation (Live 5/08/94)" on the Xcreteria Volume One compilation in 1995.
- "Live Fragment" was recorded live at the Bertram and Sons foundry in Dundas on October 21, 1994.
- Disc Two: Compiled from Orphx 02, originally released in an edition of 100 cassettes on the Xcreteria label in April 1994. Recorded direct to 4-track at The Pit on December 29, 1993. Mixed and mastered at Cloverhill in February 1994.
About Orphx
Orphx have been developing their fusion of hypnotic rhythms and experimental noise for over twenty years. Using modular and analog synthesizers, software, location recordings and feedback circuits, Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey draw upon the darker, psychedelic fringes of techno and electro, and combine these elements with the experimental aesthetics and themes of early industrial music.
Orphx gained an international following as one of the pioneering acts within the European rhythmic noise scene and more recently came to the attention of techno fans through a series of acclaimed 12"s on Adam Xs Sonic Groove label, along with standout remixes for artists like Perc, Oscar Mulero and Svreca.
Oddie and Sealey have performed throughout Europe and North America at celebrated venues like Berghain and Tresor as well as notable electronic music festivals such as Movement and Mutek. Their live appearances are renowned for delivering improvised performances that combine software with modular synthesizer and other hardware.
Orphx has released nine full length albums and numerous singles on vinyl, CD and cassette that have had a significant influence on many artists in the present wave of industrial techno. Building on a sprawling back catalogue that stretches across the divisions between industrial, ambient and techno, their recent output has demonstrated that Orphx is both a pioneer and an innovator in the fusion of rhythm and noise.
Real Name
- Christina Sealey & Richard Oddie
Name Vars
- Oriphix
- Orphyx
Aliases
- Antiform
Members
- Richard Oddie
- Christina Sealey