A Spectrum of Infinite Scale

by Man or Astro-Man?

A Spectrum of Infinite Scale cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 September 2000
  • Label: Touch and Go
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:44
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The theatrical surf-rock ensemble pivots sharply toward darker, more expansive post-rock experimentation. 'A Spectrum of Infinite Scale' relies far less on vintage science-fiction samples and rapid-fire surf beats, incorporating heavily processed synthesizers, motorik rhythms, and complex, shifting dynamics. It is an ambitious, largely instrumental recording that proved polarizing among their core fanbase.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, existential, space

Tracklist

  1. Pathway to the Infinite (1:25)
  2. Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator Stanford University, Stanford California (3:10)
  3. Preparation Clont (2:15)
  4. Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers (5:44)
  5. Um Espectro Sem Escala (2:34)
  6. Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing With a Brick (3:07)
  7. ? (3:34)
  8. Very Subtle Elevators (3:48)
  9. Within One Universe There Are Millions (2:56)
  10. Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronis, Incurable Tinnitus (2:23)
  11. A Simple Text File (2:06)
  12. Obligatory Part 2 Song in Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One (3:20)
  13. Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage (5:16)

Credits

  • Man or Astro-man? - primary artist
  • Birdstuff - drums [drums of acoustic and electric origin], other [spectrometer allocation, analogation of keyed and impact form], piano, other [aerodynamic objects and affordable electronic gadgetry]
  • Trace Reading - guitar [main guitar performance], lap steel guitar [electric lapsteel], other [radio sciences, select electric bass interaction, specific guitar destruction]
  • Blazar The Probe Handler - guitar [various guitar interaction], synthesizer, bass [select electric bass guitar output, back to basics sample playback], other [divergent pc sample playback, aerodynamic objects]
  • CoCo The Electronic Monkey Wizard - theremin, electric bass, synthesizer [bass synthesizer], other [microphone relocation, dot matrix printer, talk back to basics and back to basics sample playback]

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