In a recent review of an Illusion Of Safety record (Vital Weekly, 855), Frans de Waard wrote : "There are various people who I thing are geniuses, but never get the recognition they deserve. (...) Dan(iel) Burke is one of them. Since so many years he's the man behind Illusion Of Safety and responsible for a fine body of work over all those years". I do agree.
I am Happy and Proud to present a new Illusion Of Safety release of exclusive material !
Recorded live at DreamBait, Chicago on March 12, 2012.
Here is a great collaborative tape to finally close the Big City Orchestra series... This is also the first of four posts of cassettes provided by Franck Laplaine, the man behind the excellent label Sonoris. Many thanks to Franck for excavating that little treasure !
Tracklist :
A1. Doodle Sack
A2. The Cull Wapt The Mort's Bite
A3. Dumb Glutton
A4. Only Cods The Curate
A5. Cupid's Kettle Drums
A6. Carvel's Ring
A7. Dock Smack Smooth
B1. Old Hat
B2. Crinkum Crankum
B3. A Cauliflower Have None
B4. Capon
B5. Or You Will Shew Your Money
B6. Windpipe Passage
B7. Whore Pipe Chamber Lye
B8. That Has Flowers Every Month
CDr created to be sold primarily at live performances. The tracks are live unreleased performances from 2000 + two new studio compositions, and two previously unavailable recordings from 1994.
Track 1 : live improvisation collaboration with Theresa Marin Nakra at RRR Loft, June 21st, 2000 ;
Track 2 : remix (2000) from a live peformance in Rennes, France, 1997 ;
Track 3 : combination of a string/orchestral piece from 1988 and a computer manipulation done in 2001 ;
Track 4 : solo piece by Chris Block, 1994 ;
Track 5 : solo piece by Dan Burke, 1994 ;
Tracks 6 & 7 : solo performance by Dan Burke at Dead Tech gallery, Chicago, 2000.
Tracklist :
1. Live In Lowell (17:41)
2. Rennes Part 1 Mix 2 (3:16)
3. Paradise (Is) Unlivable (19:20)
4. Five Minutes Approving (7:58)
5. Out The Window (8:52)
6. 11-5-00 Dead Tech Part 1 (4:28)
7. 11-5-00 Dead Tech Part 2 (4:55)
CDr
Label : Auf Abwegen, Germany, 2002
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies
Another amazing Illusion Of Safety release - recent but rare :
"created to celebrate the 10 year existence of aufabwegen magazine
released with aa#32 in a limited edition of 100 copies"
Cassette, C90
Label : Complacency, US, 1985
Ripped by rayman
From Dead Tech MySpace : "In 1981, Mitch Enderle was the first collaborator with Dan Burke recording as Psychotic Dub, which later became Illusion Of Safety. In 1985 Mitch released a cassette on Complacency called Dead Tech. This work was Industrial music described as "noise like it used to be", featuring distorted drum machine, loops, samples, synth, guitar, and vocals very similar to early SPK, Nocturnal Emission, and Test Department".
Tracklist :
A1. Got Me On The Run
A2. Desolate-Demolition
A3. Halls Of Shame
A4. Feel The Steal
A5. Pit Of Darkness
A6. Where's God?
A7. Incoming
A8. Rip The Flesh
A9. Sludge Is My Semen
A10. Drown In Fallout
B1. Catalavox
B2. Enemy Of The State
B3. Fear
B4. 7 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
B5. Temple Offering
B6. Hot Box Of Genocide
B7. Rotting Thoughts
B8. I'm An Angel!
B9. Frustrated By Distortions
Cassette, C46
Label : Complacency, US, 1991
Ripped by caronte
As far as I know, the performers on that obscure Illusion Of Safety release are Dan Burke and Jim O'Rourke. A brilliant cassette of ambient post-industrial music !
LP
Label : Complacency, US, 1989
Ripped by Trantor
In 1989, Complacency released a Hands To / Eric Lunde split LP. At the same time, came that Holeist / Illusion Of Safety LP. Holeist was Dan Burke + Jeph Jerman + Eric Lunde.
The Holeist side was "recorded during the Hands To / Eric Lunde split LP sessions in the comfort of Lunde's living room on equipment provided by Dan Burke". The IOS side was recorded live in July 1989.
The only other appearance of Holeist is a live recording on a split cassette.
Tracklist :
A1. Holeist - Soileth
A2. Holeist - 'Unsheltered'
A3. Holeist - Hazur
A4. Holeist - Stahlmesser
B1. Illusion Of Safety - Live 7/9/89 Chicago Laminating
B2. Illusion Of Safety - Live 7/17/89 Club Lower Links Chicago
B3. Illusion Of Safety - Live 7/22/89 Francis Ford Studio Milwaukee
That cassette is one of the most obscure by Illusion Of Safety. According to the cover, it was previously released on Complacency under the title "The Best of Dead Tech and Illusion Of Safety".
Dead Tech (alias Mitch Enderle) recently came back for a very first live appearance. On Dead Tech Myspace page, we can read :
"In 1981, Mitch Enderle was the first collaborator with Dan Burke recording as Psychotic Dub, which later became Illusion Of Safety. In 1985 Mitch released a cassette on Complacency called Dead Tech. This work was Industrial music described as "noise like it used to be", featuring distorted drum machine, loops, samples, synth, guitar, and vocals very similar to early SPK, Nocturnal Emission, and Test Department. For this performance longtime collaborators Mitch and Dan will be recreating some of this material for a one off performance at Enemy".
Tracklist :
A1. Catalavox (4:32)
A2. Extreme State Of Fear (3:41)
A3. Ethical Nihilism (3:06)
A4. Religious Sexual Spasm (1:28)
A5. Mother (5:05)
A6. Got Me On The Run (5:11)
A7. You Fingered Out / Anger And Hatred Are Very Powerful Emotions (5:12)
A8. 300 Gallon Loop (1:11)
B1. Cast It To The Potter (3:50)
B2. Feel The Steel (4:11)
B3. James (5:41)
B4. So You Think About It (1:58)
B5. Music Without A Film (1:54)
B6. Confusion (2:39)
B7. Who's In Charge (8:30)
B8. Frustrated By Distortions (In This Chemical Venture) (0:28)
Those who arrived too late to download "Fin De Siècle" will be consolated with a few more Illusion Of Safety obscure classics...
From an old Sound Of Pig catalog : "Fresh from their LP, IOS lays a tape on SOP -- a song tape that represents the band's live sound -- and a damn good sound it is too -- the beat goes on".
Tracklist :
A1. Cockbeat
A2. In Nothing We Believed
A3. Discipline
A4. Extreme State Of Fear
A5. I Was The Killer
A6. Doesn't Your Work Interest You, Esther?
B1. Repairs (Safety First - Quietly As You Can)
B2. Ord
B3. Tranethrash (John And Dagoth Meet - Jimmy's Clubbing)
B4. Primordial
B5. The Boat Piece
