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01. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Sleep
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02. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Still-Life
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03. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Dreams on His Fingers
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04. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Next of Kin
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05. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Once When I Was an Indian
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06. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Rain
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01. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Alarm Song
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02. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Shard
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03. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Die!
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04. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Sleeping
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05. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Leaving
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06. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Hymn to Pan
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07. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Get to Fuck
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08. THE THIRD EYE FOUNDATION - Introversion
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ARTIST
THIRD EYE FOUNDATION, THE
TITLE
Semtex (20th Anniversary Edition)
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
ICI D''AILLEURS
CATALOG #
IDA 111LP
IDA 111LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
2/19/2016
Double LP version. On the occasion of the 2016 20th anniversary of
The Third Eye Foundation
's 1996 debut album
Semtex
, one of the most influential drum and bass albums of its time, it is worth revisiting the career of
Matt Elliott
, its composer. Elliott was not even 16 when he decided to stop his studies and devote himself to his passion for music. He got a job at the famous Revolver Records in Bristol (profiled in
Richard King
's 2015 book
Original Rockers
, which explains how the shop influenced the spread of indie music and especially trip hop) and began DJing in Bristol clubs, though he wasn't old enough to be there legally. Beginning as
The Third Eye
in 1993, he appeared on albums by
Movietone
and
Flying Saucer Attack
and started his own band,
Linda's Strange Vacation
, with
Kate Wright
and
Rachel Brook
; he also used the band's name for his micro-label, on which he released the first songs from The Third Eye Foundation. In 1995, Elliott was one of the very few artists involved in the tribute album for the famous US krautrock duo
Silver Apples
,
Electronics Evocations
. He was then invited to open for them on their US reunion tour. By the age of 20, Elliott had already been involved in nearly every area of the music industry. But the story was only just beginning. In 1996, he finally released his first album as The Third Eye Foundation,
Semtex
, on his own label, with support from Domino (the beginning of a longstanding collaboration). Recorded in a squat Elliott shared with
Matt Jones
from
Crescent
on a four-track recorder borrowed from
Dave Pearce
from Flying Saucer Attack and mixed with headphones at excessive volume (resulting in permanent hearing loss at around three kHz),
Semtex
is brutal and uncompromising. Featuring a mix of noisy, ripped-up guitars and hectic drum machines, with
Debbie Parsons
's vocals on some songs, it is the antithesis of electronic dancefloor music. It branded its style into Elliott's discography, in which social unrest, loneliness, political confusion, anger, and anti-establishment feelings are regular themes. This deluxe 20th-anniversary reissue includes eight previously unreleased tracks, mostly recorded on cassettes between 1991 and 1997 and all remastered by
Anders Peterson
. This expanded document testifies to the corrosive never-say-die attitude of The Third Eye Foundation. Play very loud (bearing in mind the risk of ending up completely shattered by music of such rare scope and scale).
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