Clockseed

by Vampire Rodents

Clockseed cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 April 1995
  • Label: Re-Constriction
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:35:53
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Victor Wulf, Hae Su Oh, Daniel Vahnke, Lucia De La Torre, Boom chr Paige, Maria Azevedo, Eric Powell, Pall Jenkins, Jason Bazinet, Trevor Henthorn, Seibold, Dee Madden, Linda LeSabre, Blake Barnes, Jared Hendrickson, Andrea Akastia, Mel Hammond, Mark Edwards, Dave Creadeau, Mordachai Benghiat, Christian Void, Sarah Folkman, Consuelo Buenviento, Luisa Escalante, Tony Lash, Dan Gatto, Jing Laoshu, Joan McAninch, Betty Martinez, Rey Osburn, Chase, Sean Setterberg

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Clockseed' is a wildly chaotic and compositionally dense masterclass in sample-based post-industrial music. Helmed by Daniel Vahnke, the project stitches together thousands of disparate classical, jazz, and world music samples over aggressively synthetic, hip-hop-inflected drum sequences. The resulting avant-garde sound collage remains incredibly ahead of its time, actively defying traditional rock song structures through overwhelming sonic maximalism.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, avant-garde, experimental, industrial, noisy, distorted, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Dowagers Egg (2:57)
  2. Skin Walker (2:47)
  3. Low Orbit (3:45)
  4. Downwind (2:43)
  5. Mother Tongue (3:10)
  6. Heliopause (2:41)
  7. Floater (3:33)
  8. Scatter (2:37)
  9. Zygote (4:00)
  10. Revisioned (2:44)
  11. Unmoved (2:50)
  12. Cocked (3:40)
  13. Another Planet (3:46)
  14. Saturation (2:49)
  15. Clockseed (4:19)
  16. Terra Amata (5:33)
  17. Tattoo Me (4:05)
  18. Ravages of Ease (2:42)
  19. Teapot (2:39)
  20. Iron Clad (2:49)
  21. Tenochtitlan II (2:02)
  22. Blind Acceleration (2:53)
  23. Little Canoe (0:15)
  24. Annexation II (3:21)
  25. Chemical Halo - V. Rodents' Sax Mix (4:48)
  26. Dowagers Egg (Alternate Master) (2:58)
  27. Zygote (Alternate Master) (4:01)
  28. Core (Alternate Master) (3:10)
  29. Mother Tongue (Alternate Master) (3:10)
  30. Saturation (Alternate Master) (2:50)

Credits

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