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East/West Blast Test - East West Blast Test album flac Performer: East/West Blast Test
Title: East West Blast Test
Style: Grindcore, Experimental
Released: 2003
Country: US
MP3 album: 1660 mb
FLAC album: 1940 mb
Rating: 4.4
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Genre: Rock

East West Blast Test are Mr. Witte (East Coast) on drums and Mr. Dodge (West Coast) on everything else. With the album assembled by mailed tapes, each coast also gets a handful of guests in its corner: Witte brings along Municipal Waste’s Tony Foresta, Dim Mak’s Brandon Thomas and Burnt by the Sun/Human Remains bassist Ted Patterson; Dodge enlists his wife Lydia and Faith No More inutes Dean Menta.

Includes unlimited streaming of East West Blast Test via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 3 days. Purchasable with gift card. With the album assembled by mailed tapes, each coast also gets guests in its corner: Witte brings along Municipal Waste’s Tony Foresta, Dim Mak’s Brandon Thomas and Burnt by the Sun/Human Remains bassist Ted Patterson; Dodge enlists his wife Lydia and Faith No More guitarist-for-five minutes Dean Menta. East West Blast Test. Contact East West Blast Test. Streaming and Download help. East West Blast Test recommends: Heart of Darkness by Burnt By The Sun.

Other albums by East West Blast Test. East West Blast Test 12/4/2006. With music technology progressing by leaps and bounds in the early 21st century, more and more collaborations began occurring between musicians not in the same room together - let alone the same region. Ipecac Records seems to feature quite a few of these cross-country collaborations (General Patton vs. the X-Ecutioners, et., which continued in early 2006, with the release of the sophomore album of East West Blast Test, Popular Music for Unpopular People. Witte records an album's worth of drum tracks at home in New Jersey, ships them off to Dodge in California, and the latter fits musical bits to the beats. Noise freaks rejoice, because East West Blast Test is back in business. 1 Kind of Black and Blue East West Blast Test 0:52.

This album has an average beat per minute of 109 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 57/164 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Popular Music For Unpopular People. BPM Profile Popular Music For Unpopular People. Album starts at 164BPM, ends at 131BPM (-33), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing).

Felling Ax East West Blast Test. Afro East West Blast Test. Beret East West Blast Test. Trampoline East West Blast Test. Crossbow East West Blast Test. Puttee East West Blast Test. Agouti East West Blast Test. Wigwam East West Blast Test. Retort East West Blast Test. Chopsticks East West Blast Test. Ramoras On A Tiger Shark East West Blast Test. Swiss Alphorn East West Blast Test. Magnetic Field East West Blast Test. Cuts Of Pork East West Blast Test. Backhand Stroke East West Blast Test.

The album was assembled by Dodge in San Francisco, who added his parts after Witte had recorded his drum parts and sent them in the mail from his home base in New Jersey (hence the "East/West" part of the title). The results are surprisingly coherent - and less electronically manipulated than the similarly devised Atomsmasher, another long-distance metal collaboration Witte has been involved in - and the sound quality is great as well.

Tracklist

1 Toga
2 Magnetic Field
3 Remoras On Tiger Shark
4 Chopsticks
5 Felling Ax
6 Swiss Alphorn
7 Fez
8 Wigwam
9 Pyramids
10 Crossbow
11 Agouti
12 Parts Of A Pipe
13 Baboon
14 Fillip
15 Whiffletree
16 Retort
17 Beaver
18 Portuguese Man-Of-War
19 Discus
20 Garden Hoe
21 Afro
22 Trampoline
23 Turban
24 Backhand Stroke
25 Cuts Of Pork
26 Beret
27 Puttee

Credits

  • Drums – Dave Witte
  • Performer [Not Drums] – Chris Dodge
  • Producer – Chris Dodge, Dave Witte
  • Saxophone – Erik Hoagland
  • Vocals [Additional] – Gary Niederhoff (tracks: 13, 19, 27), Lydia Dodge (tracks: 4, 11)

Notes

This album was originally released on Slap A Ham Records (Slap A Ham #58) in October 2000.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 7 81676 65712 4

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
#58 East↔West Blast Test* East↔West Blast Test ‎(CD, Album) Slap A Ham Records #58 US 2000
Comments: (1)
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I guess it goes without saying that one expects nothing but the best from the likes of Chris Dodge and Dave Witte. So, when they team up to produce a CD, you could probably imagine how amazing it is. But I don't think anything can quite prepare the listener for the all-out piece of sheer, eclectic brilliance that is East West Blast Test. Right from the onset, with the blistering opener "Toga", you can tell this will be an album that you'll never forget. The transitions between low and high, feedback'n'all, provide a fascinating take on the whole hardcore/grindcore/experimental/avant-garde genres of music. It's a surprise to many that, during the writing process for this CD, many of the drum tracks were written without anything to base them upon. The perfection with which Dodge then went on to flesh out this tracks is incredible, as neatly demonstrated by the stunning track "Fez" or, by the almost Jazzy, "Swiss Alphorn". The saxophones, the frantic vocals, the grindcore style drums and the demented guitars all add up to create a truly atmospheric sound, worthy of any avant-garde, post-Naked City style band. Despite it only being 17 minutes long, this is an album that you'll not forget in any hurry. All 27 tracks leave behind a distinct impression on the listener, even if the song titles themselves aren't quite so easy to remember. Now, if only every band could be this good! 9/10