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The Need To Now

by Illusion of Safety

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Lost 07:48
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Remember 07:31
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Need to Know 05:41
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A Purpose 07:15
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About When 09:05
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Label: Experimedia – expcd002.
All sound by Dan Burke.

2008 marks the 25th year for Illusion Of Safety. Once an ensemble of misanthropic electron engineers, Illusion Of Safety has effectively reduced itself down to a single member in Dan Burke who has arrived at the silver anniversary with some of his best work produced throughout the sprawling Illusion Of Safety catalogue. There was the Quell & Sedition 10", the In Session cd, and now this small edition cd-r, all of which are exemplary versions of the Illusion Of Safety signature sound for psychologically challenging compositions. The Need To Now is more of a blackened cosmic headspace music, with all of the psychedelic flourishes that burst out of Klaus Schulze or Expo '70 turned towards something much much darker and much more brooding. There is oblivion in front of you when you are floating alone in outer space, and Burke presents that sublime fiction replete with wonder and horror. For all of the bleak subtext of the album, Burke keeps things very subtle preferring to focus on the minimalist dronesmear ruptured with occasional detours. The shadow and vacuum of Illusion Of Safety's aerosolized drone always has something ominous just outside of earshot, something lurking the corners of those corroded metal tones and already eerie passages of sci-fi incidental music slowed way the hell down. Illusion Of Safety breaks up the long-form drones with tense glitch workouts that could be an extract from a CoH production, with all sorts of misfired squiggles, poorly grounded bursts of electricity, and erratic charged samples; but unsettled ambience overcomes each of these crescendo like a creeping suffocating fog of toxic gas. It's an austere and powerful record, in spite of the many subtle twists and turns. Fucking incredible is what The Need To Now is. Limited to a mere 150 copies.

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released March 8, 2008

A hand signed and numbered limited edition release, The Need To Now is one of Burke’s more stark and minimal works.While more minimalistic overall, The Need To Now still embraces Burke’s penchant for broad dynamics, building from soft tones, drones, and distant whistling to maddening noise and back down to near silence with just the smallest trace of air space.Music box like tones dance loosely throughout constructed industrial ambient environments.Soft crackling, static and noises fizzle in and out of focus while subtle guitar rises quietly in the distance.Deconstructed voices, samples, rhythms, and instruments arranged into brilliant sound montages in ways reminiscent of the classic GRM school of tape cut ups.A soundtrack for sedated asylum inmates.This masterful work by one of the veteran heroes of avant-garde post-industrial music aims at activating modes of perception, deprogramming reality, and recombining information pointing toward a new reality/environment.The Need To Now comes packaged in experimedia’s signature tall slim pack and features the photography of Chris Block.Strictly limited to 150 copies

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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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