Waveform Transmission Vol. 2

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Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
The Vision - Waveform Transmission Vol 2.jpg
Studio album by
Released1993 (1993)
Genre Detroit techno
Length32:44
Label Tresor
Producer Vision
The Vision chronology
Toxin 12 EP
(1992)
Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
(1993)
Spectral Nomad
(1996)
Waveform Transmission chronology
Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
(1993)
Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
(1993)
Waveform Transmission Vol. 3
(1994)

Waveform Transmission Vol. 2 is an album by American electronic musician and record producer Robert Hood, released under the alias The Vision. [1] Issued in 1993 via Tresor record label, it is the second instalment of the Waveform Transmission series. [2] Featuring a different style from Hood's future releases, the record attributes influences to his collective Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic critic Jason Birchmeier found the record to be "nowhere near as realized as his [Hood's] later Tresor recordings such as Internal Empire and Minimal Nation ." Birchmeier further stated: "With the syncopated pounding and the maelstrom of looped laser sounds, a stark, austere motif pervades throughout these eight songs; unfortunately, the variety of experimental song ideas so common to his later work is notably absent." [3] Ruaridh Law of Fact described the tracks as "heavy, atonal DJ workouts with plenty of rattling percussion and relatively high BPMs," while comparing them to the "noisy, fast, unrefined-sounding techno" that Hood released on Hard Wax label. [4] Techno: The Rough Guide author Tim Barr thought that the record "demonstrates a distinctive and restless creativity that was all his own." [5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Vision.

  1. "K-Force" — 4:21
  2. "Liquification" — 2:01
  3. "Weapons" — 2:41
  4. "Gamma Scale" — 5:47
  5. "Chrome" — 3:23
  6. "Projectile Darts" — 5:06
  7. "The Protector" — 3:28
  8. "Magnetic Storm" — 5:41

Personnel

Album credits as adapted from CD liner notes. [6]

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