List | V/A | 'CatScan 1.0' CD 1995

'From Control-Alt-Delete'

Track:	Name:	Artist:	Time:
1.	Sing In Code	Information Society	8:06
2.	After The Fall	Seven Red Seven	5:15
3.	Desolation	Dissonance	3:48
4.	Am I	Vatic[A.N.]	4:59
5.	Refusal	North By Nortwest	4:13
6.	Outside Of Love	Constant Havoc	3:24
7.	Love In Time	Racket Club	4:00
8.	Breakpoint	STN	3:04
9.	The End	The Memory Garden	3:40
10.	Perfect Woman	Persona	5:06
11.	Autonomy	Pivot Clowj	5:30
12.	Lifeline	Total Devotion	2:49
13.	My Eyes	Lollipop Guild	4:00
14.	Cruxified	U-N-I	3:57
15.	Anything	Bytet	3:23
	Segue	::TheCat::	0:04
16.	Fall In Line	Information Society	3:46
	Total		69:04

Comments:

This is supposedly the darker side of CAD, with less poppy bouncy stuff and more 'alternative'/experimental stuff. Well, the first track seems a bit of the latter, at least. InSoc delivers a slow ambient track with vocal that sing plain rubbish, using the voice as an instrument. Seven Red Seven brings us back to more traditional pop music, a sort of slow depressing "now-that-we've-broken-up" type ballad. It's quite good for one of those. Dissonance have matured a bit since CatComp; this track is a bit rougher, and the excellent female vocals are a bit disted. It's a little EBM/industrial-ish, while still in the pop genre. I'm starting to like this band.

Track 4 starts off with something that sounds like a sampled modem that's been disted a little for extra effect. It then turns into an angrish slow EBM/industrapop tune which is quite pleasant, yet a bit too repetative. The dist guitar inserts sound quite good here with the synth bassline. North By Northwest is more regular synthpop, yet darker than most American stuff. It's quite catchy. Constant Havoc is also some kind of industrapop. Racket Club gives us a little tune with flanged spoken repetative vocals over an odd rhythm. STN sounds a bit like old Skinny Puppy or something; it reminds me a bit of Assimilate. The Memory Garden plays darkish synthpop, and so does Persona (but perhaps slower and softer) and Pivot Clowj. Total Devotion sounds a little bit like a cheaper version of Mesh, a bit more demo-ish. Lollipop Guild reminds me a bit of Psyche (but with in-tune vocals) or something, like mid-to-late 80:s alternative synthpop. U-N-I is even more like Psyche, only a little poppier. Bytet sounds a little EBM/industrial-ish, but the very repetative vocals get old fairly quickly, and by the end of the song you're already sick of them.

'Segue' is basically just an introduction to the last track; it's every CAD:ers favourite Jeri Beck announcing "please stay tuned for a historical archive". It's an ancient InSoc tune not listed on the cover. It's from their first EP, recorded way back in 1983. It's a fun little track :-)

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