James Ferraro - Citrac

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 17 Sep, 2009.

Hey, another week, another James Ferraro release. I thought that Multitopia LP last week was proper ace but it was a packed week for the old recommendations and you can't put him in there every time now, can you? Citrac is limited to 400 copies and contains two albums: Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium and Alternative Soundtrack to Digital Overdrive. The fairly staggering artwork immediately sets the scene with its MS Paint style 80s movie cut 'n' pasting the perfect foil to the obscured dystopian sci-fi beats (a bit Chrome-y perhaps?), cheap synth lines and ridiculously twiddly guitars which occasionally cut out completely as though he's made a performance boo boo. I think I'm the only one in here today who's into this but what can't really be debated is that it's incredibly amusing and evocative, one suggestion is that it sounds like running around in the sewers underneath a video arcade while being chased by a monster and another that it's like being trapped inside Robocop at some seedy German club or other. Phil's lady friend Susan is in today and offered a different conclusion - that "It's like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mixed with shit". He divides opinions and gets extreme reactions which means he's doing something right as far as I'm concerned.

The CITRAC collection presents one of James Ferraro s most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. By shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes James finds a new way to tell a story. Evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two LPs, contains the previously released Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium , excerpts and alternative edits from Liquid Metal s Alternative Soundtrack to Digital Overdrive , and the all new Digital Tribe . Presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from Ferraro s alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. In an edition of 400 double LPs with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by James.

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