Description:	USED Split LP on Temporary Residence, MEGA RARE Sky Blue And White edn of 100!! EX/EX
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Condition:	Used
	Genre(s):	Psychedelia / Space Rock
	Label:	Temporary Residence
	Price:	£39.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brett on 12 February 2009.

Someone's piped a big prog log into the office and it smells of RAWK. The drums on the Zombi side of this Maserati/Zombi split on Temporary Residence are total 'skin porn, wildy flailing right up there in the mix backed by their trademark synth sound.. It's like Tool's drummer jamming with Jean Michel Jarre or something -completely fucking ridiculous but also kind of ace. I don't think Zombi have ever come close to matching their early material but this is definitely the best thing I've heard from them in a while.. The general feeling in the office is that the Trans Am stuff of a few years back would be a pretty good comparison. The Maserati side isn't that far removed from the cosmic wizard cape style but swaps the synths out for guitars embellished with pretty much every effect known to man. As much as this stuff usually offends me I'm actually dead keen on it, particularly the quality thudding bass riff of their second track. I liked this record much more than I'd like to admit.

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What their label says...

Brand new, unreleased material by maserati and zombi. features members of lcd soundsystem, !!!, the juan maclean, turing machine. long in the making, this split lp finally brings together two similarly influenced and equally provocativegroups: athens, ga’s maserati – with their eternally driving, krautrock-infused dance anthems – shares the record with pittsburgh’s favorite italo-cinema fetishists, zombi. teaming up once again with longtime producer and friend andy baker (brian eno, harvey milk), maserati contributes a pair of two-part epics that show the band progressing away from the sparkly-clean productions of their past in favor of a grittier, more experimental sound, occupying the unlikely space between the dark garage-pop infectiousness of u2’s “sunday bloody sunday” and the analog synth meditations of harmonia. the result is maserati’s most unique and inspired material to date. on the flipside, zombi offer a single 14-minute track that slowly and steadily amasses pile of analog synths to build a stage for an extended drum solo (imagine goblin covering “moby dick” and you’re almost there). with the synths providing the rhythmic foundation, the drums swirl about in a freeform ascent for over five minutes before patterns start to creep in, signaling the big payoff is imminent. indeed, when the drums finally snap into an airtight locking groove with the thick bed of synths, the impact is downright euphoric. the song exits with a slow fade, as if to fittingly ride this high into oblivion. the marriage of these two bands couldn’t be more perfect, and the inspiration they have brought each other is evident in both the creative exploration and the supreme quality of the tracks. Rather that deliver non-album toss-offs, both groups brought top-shelf a-sides, making this split an essential part of each artist’s already rich catalog.

Tracks :

maserati - 1. join us, mystic sister
2. no more sages
3. monoliths
4. thieves / 
zombi - 5. infinity