Full Sun (Album)
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| Released | January 1998 | |||
| Recorded | August 1996 - December 1998 | |||
| Length | 1:50:00 | |||
| Label | scary!records | |||
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Full Sun was a double album that was released in January 1998. The first half of the collection is split-up by a 6-part movement titled Only To Be of which the third part was omitted. The first half also features a 21+ minute long experimental soundscape in the track Planetary Approval. Similar to the Penumbra/Umbra dual release, the second half of this collection features cover songs and more experimental tracks.
Track Listing
CD 1
- Only To Be (Parts I & II) (7:09)
- Lonliness (5:31)
- Untitled (4:09)
- 0degreesK (3:08)
- Only To Be (Part IV) (4:35)
- Envy We, The Blind (10:34)
- Aspiration Blues (2:26)
- Only To Be (Parts V & VI) (6:42)
- Last Worlds (5:51)
- Planetary Approval (21:37)
CD 2
- Carpe Diem (6:23)
- Seamus (2:05)
- Love, Hate, War Crimes (4:03)
- Nine Lives (1:46)
- I'm Waiting For The Man (5:09)
- Envy Testing (1:21)
- Deflection Blues (3:13)
- Apples & Oranges (4:48)
- Wierd Crazy (0:43)
- Sunday Morning (3:26)
- Pulling The Plug (3:42)
- Other Test (0:57)
Equipment
- Tascam Porta07 4-track Cassette Recorder
- Tascam 424 4-track Cassette Recorder
- Seagull 12-String Acoustic Guitar
- Gibson Epiphone 6-String Electric Guitar
- Fender American 6-String Standard Electric
- Fender M-80 Amplifier
- Boss Effect Pedals: Heavy Metal, Digital Chorus
- DOD Effect Pedals: Envelope Filter, Digital Delay, Stereo Flanger
- Audio Technica Dynamic Microphone
- Electro-Voice Dynamic Microphone
- Yamaha Drum Machine
- Boss DR-660 Drum Machine
- Akai S-20 Phrase Sampler
Covers
Personal Thoughts
When compared to the first three collections of music, this one doesn't appear so bad to me anymore. The songs are much more ambitious and relatively mature. There's still a lot of angsty and pretentious stuff in there, though, don't be fooled. One of the better aspects of the music here is an almost complete lack of drum machines, which I think was due to the fact that I'd been borrowing my friend's drum machine for over a year and he needed it back. Ultimately, I think no percussion is better than drum machines trying to sound like actual drums, especially when they're programmed by a person who can't play the drums. During this time, I began experimenting with alternate forms of percussion or simply foregoing it completely. This collection was wrapping-up around the time that I bought my Akai S-20 sampler, which lent itself to a few tracks.
