Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95

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Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95
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Compilation album by
ReleasedFebruary 20, 2012 (2012-02-20)
RecordedOctober 13, 2012 (2012-10-13)
Studio
Various
Genre Industrial
Length37:34
Label Blackest Ever Black
Producer
  • Stuart Argabright
  • Shinichi Shimokawa
Black Rain chronology
Nanarchy
(1996)
Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95
(2012)
Protoplasm
(2013)

Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95 is a compilation album by Black Rain, released on February 20, 2012 by Blackest Ever Black. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

The Quietus called the songs of Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95 "well ahead of their curve" and described the titletrack as "the album's centrepiece - a throbbing floorgazer that’s all smouldering smoke, steam, and steel, flickering with twitchy hi-hats and techy, asynchronous rhythmic palpitations." [3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stuart Argabright.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Lo Tek"1:27
2."Night City Tokyo"7:17
3."Lo Tek Bridge"2:57
4."Biotechno 1 and 2"6:10
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Lo Tek Bridge 2"3:19
6."Now I'm Just a Number"11:31
7."Lo Tek Musicm"4:53

Personnel

Adapted from the Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95 liner notes. [4]

Black Rain

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United Kingdom2012Blackest Ever Black CS, DL, LP BLACKEST007

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References

  1. "Black Rain: Now I'm Just a Number > Overview". AllMusic . Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  2. "Black Rain – "Lo Tek"". Fact . The Vinyl Factory. April 1, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. Alexander Diduck, Ryan (February 26, 2012). "Black Rain: Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95". The Quietus . Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  4. Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95 (booklet). Black Rain. London, United Kingdom: Blackest Ever Black. 2012.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)