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- Date Released: September 15, 1998
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Electronic Experimental
- Label: Subharmonic
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We Say...
The marriage of many Manhattan scenes, Material mixed experimental jazz, club and world music, punk and others. Odder still, the group's nucleus spawned two superstar producer/multi-instrumentalists: Bill Laswell, whose collaboration with Herbie Hancock yielded the hip-hop milestone "Rockit," and Michael Beinhorn, who went on to produce Hole, Korn and Marilyn Manson.
Secret Life collects early Material singles and EPs recorded between 1979 and 1981, when Laswell, Beinhorn and drummer Fred Maher together with guests like peerless guitarist Robert Quine grounded their proclivities toward strange noises and odd juxtapositions in fundamental dance grooves that split the difference between disco and rock. The result suggests what those beloved Talking Heads and Public Image, Ltd. albums might've sounded like had they been played by jazz fusionists. Even when flirting with sequencers on the title track, Material flaunts its considerable chops, and when they let loose on "White Man," they lead the way to where today's jam bands simply cannot follow. -
They Say...
Material became less unique and interesting with each passing release, so it's no surprise that their most solid album is this compilation that gathers their first four singles and EPs, written and recorded between 1979 and 1981. Material's roots were in New York's anti-musical no wave scene, and although from the very beginning these guys had chops galore (Michael Beinhorn sounds like he's playing electronic drums even on a trap kit, he's so precise), there's a much harsher and more aggressive edge to these early recordings than there ever would be on later Material albums, which were far too slick and veered dangerously close to fusion territory. Songs like "O.A.O.," with its fiery Robert Quine guitar solo, and the free jazz-influenced rhythm improvisation "On Sadism" are as fresh and exciting as any jazz-based instrumental music of the early '80s, although the unfortunate vocal disco track "Dark Things" that closes the disc portends the group's slow and steady decline.
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O.A.O |
4:46 |
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| 02. | |
White Man |
7:44 |
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| 03. | |
On Sadism |
5:07 |
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Process/Motion |
4:36 |
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| 05. | |
Discourse |
4:07 |
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| 06. | |
Slow Murder |
4:01 |
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| 07. | |
Secret Life |
5:47 |
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| 08. | |
Reduction |
5:32 |
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| 09. | |
Heritage |
3:36 |
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Dark Things |
5:14 |
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| 11. | |
Detatched |
5:02 |
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| 12. | |
Ciquiri |
6:25 |
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12 Total Tracks, 61:57 Total Length
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Credits
- Martin Bisi - Producer // Material - Producer // Material - Main Performer // Robert Quine - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Bill Laswell - Band // Michael Beinhorn - Band // Cliff Cultreri - Band // Cliff Cultreri - ? // Giorgio Gomelsky - Producer // Fred Maher - Band // John T. Matarazzo - Executive Producer // Bill Bacon - Band // Max Bell - Liner Notes
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