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Cinema Stain (with Inner Vision Laboratory)
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This album is a collaboration between Inner Vision Laboratory and Roto Visage. While Inner Vision Laboratory is more unknown, with one album prior on War Office Propaganda, ‘Insane Reality’, Roto Visage has already a pretty decent discography. Roto Visage might not be that well-known either, I came unto his work on the, now discontinued, excellent underground Belgian label Bone Structure. In 2008 he delivered together with Mystified for this label the very nice dark-ambient/drone album ‘Tectonic Cargo’.
Now he’s collaborated with the already mentioned Inner Vision Laboratory to create a very cinematic soundscape album. Though the artwork and packing might seem executed somewhat low-budget, the music is excellent. The album has a wide variety of sounds to offer. Soundtrack-like music, such as the opening song ‘Opto Mechanical Projection’, percussive songs like ‘Ritual Scarification’, which also uses the samples from the great ‘new’ William Friendkin movie Bug to a great effect, and more dark-ambient soundscapes such as ‘Bad Memories’. So musically it’s all over the place. What all the tracks have in common is that they have their foundations in cinema and are therefore all very cinematic in character. While sampling pieces of soundbites from movies has been an item since the beginning days of industrial music, and therefore a lot of samples have become a cliché, Inner Vision Laboratory and Roto Visage seem to have focussed on the more obscure movies and samples that also fit within their soundscapes, not just for the sake of it.
‘Cinema Stain’ is really great listening experience, which should bring back all kinds of fine memories from dark and obscure movies for the connoisseurs, but is also an essential album for the collector of dark music in general. This album has already rotated lots of hours in my player, it’s that good! A must own is the logical conclusion. So don’t be put of by its CDr production, and also be fast to order it, since it’s 200 hand numbered copies only.
This album is also a joint release between the labels No Angels Prod. and Beast Of Prey.
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