Synergy
Sequencer
[Third Contact]
Rating: 7.0
This is the Synergy disc that cuts out all the fat and offers itself up
on the altar of "Mind's Eye" videos. Sure, this music predates
sophisticated computer animation, but it still works. Keeping with the
all- analog, retro- future synth spectacles, Sequencer lasts seven
tracks, almost all of which are a mere four minutes long (though the last
track is almost 11, presumably to make up the decidedly un-prog length of
the others).
By keeping it relatively short, the record's much more enjoyable. Larry
Fast switches on covers of Mason Williams' "Classical Gas" (!) and
Largo's "New World Symphony" (!!), sounding both silly and dead serious.
Somewhere between Sid and Marty Kroft and LSD, Sequencer is
excellent headphone music, full of dark tones and trippy effects. I
also think this album was probably the first to ever have a song title
with the prefix "Cyber" in it, but I'm not sure. I know there wasn't one
on any of Edison's cylinders.
-Jason Josephes