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Distraction

by Illusion of Safety

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Con ED 02:09
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Imposture 04:44
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Moment 04:03
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Repairs 03:46
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Rainbow 01:20
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Outhouse 00:34
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Vasectomy 12:31
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about

Released 1994 by Odd SIze records. All sound by Dan Burke with Chris Block and Jim O. (guitar) on Helen.
ILLUSION OF SAFETY Distraction.
IoS has been charting their own distinctive course for some time now,
and under many shadowy guises: they've instigated corrosive noise,
industrial rhythm music, musique concrete and explored the wide
contours of pure sound collage. The nucleus of the 'band' has always
been multi-instrumentalist Dan Burke, although the lack of linear
notes in the digipak fail to indicate whether others are involved.
Distraction is an exercise in plundersonics--Burke travels throughout
the electronic spectrum, as the single 63-track goes through warped,
backwards classical motifs, marauding drum machines attempting invoke
martial law, film samples, and all sorts of machine hums, feedback
and indefinable noises. It's a stereophonic collage wrenched from the
vast history of music and it's intertwined with electronic
technology, with a vast amount of plucked, refined and reconfigured
sounds. Thematically, it doesn't get into a cohesive whole, but this
kind of stuff rarely does: like a cinematic documentary edited with
a '90s hyper-brutality, the patient listener is rewarded by the sheer
richness of the work's various component parts.

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released January 2, 1994

Existence Is Fleeting

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Illusion of Safety Elgin, Illinois

Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. ... more

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