Made From Technetium

by Man or Astro-Man?

Made From Technetium cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 September 1997
  • Label: Touch and Go
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:00:37
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The extraterrestrial instrumental rock band blasts through a high-octane mix of vintage surf rock and angular post-hardcore intensity. Heavily reliant on science fiction themes and quirky B-movie sampling, it is a brilliantly playful and fast-paced indie rock record.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, sci-fi, instrumental, fast, eccentric, melodic, dance, fuzz, witty

Tracklist

  1. Message from the Cd / Message from the LP (0:26)
  2. Lo Batt. (2:25)
  3. Jonathan Winters Frankenstein (2:14)
  4. Don't Think What Jack (2:40)
  5. Junk Satelite (3:28)
  6. 10 Years After World War 4 (2:39)
  7. A Saucerful of Sucrets (2:24)
  8. Breathing from Oxide (2:53)
  9. Muzak for Cybernetics (2:04)
  10. Structo (2:38)
  11. The Sound Waves Reversing (1:43)
  12. Theoretical Sounds of Slow Motion (3:03)
  13. Static Cling (3:23)
  14. Evert 1 Pipkin (3:17)
  15. Weightless at Zero Return (25:11)

Credits

  • Man or Astro-man? - primary artist
  • Chris Bilheimer - artwork [metallographic representation]
  • Star Crunch - artwork [metallographic representation], sounds [miscellaneous sound], noises [crackles], performer [low freq. feedback], vocals, guitar
  • John Golden - lacquer cut by
  • Birdstuff - sounds [miscellaneous sound], other [merlin], vocals [static vocals], other [backmasking], drums
  • CoCo The Electronic Monkey Wizard - sounds [miscellaneous sound], sounds [bleeps], electronics [radio dial tuning], electric bass

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