Experiment Below * by Hovercraft (CD, Sep-1998, Mute)

Album Features
UPC:	724596908020
Artist:	Hovercraft
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1998
Record Label:	Mute
Genre:	Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Anthropod
2. Phantom Limb
3. Transmitter Down
4. Endoradiosonde
5. Benzedrine
6. Wire Trace
7. Epoxy

Details
Producer:	Hovercraft
Distributor:	Caroline Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Hovercraft includes: Campbell 2000 (guitar); Sadie 7 (bass); Dash 11 (drums).Personnel: Campbell 2000 (guitar).Recording information: 1998.Beginning with faint guitar scratches and crackling harmonics, this is the third and final release from Seattle trio Hovercraft. Formed in the early-'90s by Beth Leisling and Ryan, it shoved aside the grunge trend soon to be exported from Seattle to probe the more intricate innards of rock. Bits of sound, both subtle and boisterous, trade places in the noise created by drums, guitar and bass. With the help of effects pedals, the members, also known as Cambell 2000 (Ryan), Dave (Karl 3-30) and Sadie 7 (Dash 11 on EXPERIMENT BELOW) take traditional rock instruments and pound, twist and extract machine-like emanations from them. In the vein of German experimental outfit Einsturzende Neubauten but with more melodic leanings, Hovercraft construct an underlying melody and take it, almost improvisationally, from there. From the psychedelic-soaked space jam "Phantom Limb," to the deceptively minimal sputtering and crashing of "Transmitter Down," it becomes amazing what the three do, each armed with one instrument and no vocals.

Editorial Reviews
8 (out of 10) - ...Each piece--let's not call them `songs'--is a moody, otherworldly drama unto itself, spinning from excruciating claustrophobia out into orbit and back, the listener all too willing to be dragged along in its gravitational field.
Spin (19990101)