ARTIST: PERSPECTS TITLE: THE THIRD AND FINAL REPORT LABEL: INTERDIMENSIONAL TRANSMISSIONS FORMAT: 12" VINYL RELEASE DATE: 13 JANUARY 2003
IT continues its journey into indivualistic and adventurous electronic music, creating the standards of the future. IT 19 finds Ian Clark in his debut appearance on Interdimensional Transmissions. Ian co-founded Le Car and helped bring new obsessions to Detroit Electro, influencing all that come after. After forming Perspects and releasing music on Ersatz Audio and Clone as well his submission for Disco Nouveau, Ian finally goes solo and is his own voice. The result? Devastation. Perspects' best record to date. 'The Third and Final Report' includes the soon to be classic 'Accumulators'. Full Length & Rmx 12 due in 2003. In his own words: Air of Finality: The rocker. Out of a menacing, restarting intro emerge goosestepping synths and bullhorn voices to set the paranoid tone of the release. An analysis of mass quiet panic set to sleazy, eighth-note punch & crunch. Comfort Gained: My current favourite. Sparse, eerie synths and claustrophobic vocals record the final moments of a modern man as he decides to capitalize on the acceptance of his fate. Gimme Panic: Just what it says - Doomsday disco that suggests a human stampede, and other chaotic descents. The Accumulators: The popsong. The line: "we're accumulating" refers to both consumers losing control and corpses piling up. Subtle differences in the two verses create a cause/effect dialogue that supports this. You can dance to it too. Statement concerning the Third and Final Report of Perspects: In 'Desire and Efficiency' the warnings were there. It was the soundtrack to our surrender to the uncertain velocities. The point where vigilance falls victim to comfort and the surface suddenly seems more real. Hoverculture was inevitable. Total seduction by surface. Songs became empty signifiers efficiently packaged for consumption. Anaesthetic and disassociative, it hadn't entirely worn off when the panic hit. Now the powermad have seized control and are steering us into a crash. Now we are taking hits to the fragile framework of finance and energy that sustains us. Never have we been more aware of our mortality than right now. This is why the Third and Final Report is necessary. I.T. is a label that doesn't just release records, it releases milestones - from the 'Visionary From Beyond' series that debuted I-F's 'Space Invaders' to the world, to the early Ectomorph relics that still set the standard. Coming soon from the label are full lengths from G.D Luxxe (IT 16) and Ectomorph (IT 18). Perspects: Shouldn't you be paying attention?
