Drew Neumann, Eye Spy, Ears Only: Confidential Review
This CD is the soundtrack to the awesome original animated short series ‘Aeon Flux’ which blew me away in ’92 on BBC Two’s ‘Liquid Television’. A little bit of an outsider in the company of the usual mix CD’s I post about but this is so good it had to be included. It’s full on electronic theme and background music from the show and it just oozes atmosphere and tension.
The whole CD has a very distinct sound, all made from the same group of electronic synth instruments but each track has it’s own character and the range of styles used varies widely while all still fitting together at the same time.
If you’re like me and are into film/theme music and you can track a copy down then I would definitely recommend it for you even if you haven’t seen the show as there really isn’t anything else out there quite like it. Very clever stuff.
‘Hero’s’ is one of my favourite tracks on here, there’s a lot going on, it tells it’s own story and is from one of what I believe to be one of the best episodes. Just playing the music back I can see the whole episode played back in my mind, I must have watched it like 50 times so no wonder really!
Disc 1 is full of mainly shorter tracks with the odd longer example included, disc 2 is mainly the longer tracks running at around 12 minutes each.
This release was my very first online purchase, ever!
Disc 1
1. Intro
2. Ultimate AF
3. Train Station
4. Monican Jam
5. The Torturer
6. Train Cars
7. Breen Lounge Lizard
8. Computera
9. Heroes (Excerpt)
10. Marche
11. Errors Of The Night
12. Gravity
13. Alien Leisure
14. The Dark Prison
15. Phobia Suite
16. The Dictator’s Office
17. Demigods
18. Windtunnel
19. Memory Lapse
Disc 2
1. Choice
2. Clones
3. Paradise
4. The Tragedy Of Flight
5. Underwater Suite
6. Time Pretzel Paradox
7. Closure
Electronica Restoration 