Experiment Zero

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Experiment Zero
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Studio album by
Man or Astro-man?
Released1996
Genre Surf rock, punk rock, electronic rock
Label Touch and Go Records [1]
One Louder Records
Producer Steve Albini
Man or Astro-man? chronology
What Remains Inside a Black Hole
(1996)		Experiment Zero
(1996)		 1000X
(1997)
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Experiment Zero is an album by the American band Man or Astro-man? [3] [4] It was released in 1996 by Touch and Go Records. [5]

Contents

Production

Produced by Steve Albini, the album was recorded in three days. [6]

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that the band "deploys a manic punk velocity, and sprinkles its music with sine-wave oscillator noises and space-documentary sound bites; otherwise its material is fairly faceless." [7] The Austin American-Statesman concluded that, as "a celebration of robotic white-guy stiffness, this music has the soul of a Jetsons episode." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Stereo Phase Test"
  2. "Television Fission"
  3. "DNI"
  4. "Planet Collision"
  5. "Big Trak Attack"
  6. "9 Volt"
  7. "Evil Plans of Planet Spectra"
  8. "Anoxia"
  9. "Maximum Radiation Level"
  10. "King of the Monsters"
  11. "Cyborg Control"
  12. "Test Driver" (Takeshi Terauchi)
  13. "Television Man" (Talking Heads)
  14. "Z-X3"
  15. "Principles Unknown"
  16. "The Space Alphabet" - (Vinyl-only bonus track)

References

  1. ↑ "Man Or Astroman? Bio". Epitaph Records. Archived from the original on September 21, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ DaRonco, Mike. Experiment Zero at AllMusic
  3. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: Man or Astro-Man?". www.trouserpress.com.
  4. ↑ Wiechman, Lori (November 15, 1996). "MAN OR ASTROMAN? WHAT (NOT WHO) IS IT?". The Augusta Chronicle. Applause. p. 3.
  5. ↑ DiBlasi, Alex; Willis, Victoria (August 14, 2014). Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   9781442229761 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Sperounes, Sandra (November 3, 1999). "Aliens land in Edmonton!: Man or Astro-Man? actually manipulated by computer program". Edmonton Journal. p. C4.
  7. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (September 16, 1996). "Scrappy Surfers Cavort In Space Age Outfits". The New York Times. p. C12.
  8. ↑ Wolfinsohn, Deborah J. (May 7, 1996). "MAN OR ASTROMAN? 'EXPERIMENT ZERO'". Austin American-Statesman. p. E8.
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