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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=200 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div style="margin-left:24px; "><img src="bluelogo.gif"><P></DIV> <div> <B>Reviews:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id35_m.htm#_april_2003_review_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Entropic Advance Monkey With A Gun Revi"><U>*April 2003 Review</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35_m.htm#_april_2003_review" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Entropic Advance Monkey With A Gun Revi"><U>*April 2003 LMNOP.com</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35_m.htm#june_review" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Entropic Advance Monkey With A Gun Revi"><U>*Ju</U></A><A HREF="id35_m.htm#june_review" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Entropic Advance Monkey With A Gun Revi"><U>ne 2003 review</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35_m.htm#_piero_s_online_cultural_magazine" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Entropic Advance Monkey With A Gun Revi"><U>*July 2003 review</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.unitcircle.com/catalog/getbandinfo.asp?artistID=28" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.unitcircle.com/catalog/getban"><U> <HEAD> <style type="text/css"></style> </HEAD>  </U></A></div> <div> <B>Purchase E/A CD's On The Internet...</B><A HREF="http://www.unitcircle.com/catalog/getbandinfo.asp?artistID=28" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.unitcircle.com/catalog/getban"><U><B>Click Here!</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=75 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>entropic advance</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="entropic advance"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="new_improved_formula.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="New Improved Formula"><U>New Improved Formula</U></A>   |   <A HREF="c_a_v_e_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="C.A.V.E."><U>C.A.V.E.</U></A>   |   <A HREF="water_for_your_eyes.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Water For Your Eyes"><U>Water For Your Eyes</U></A>   |   <A HREF="red_yellow_noise.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Yellow Noise"><U>Red Yellow Noise</U></A>   |   <A HREF="monkey_with_a_gun.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Monkey With A Gun"><U>Monkey With A Gun</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=405 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <B>Monkey With A Gun (Reviews)</B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="_piero_s_online_cultural_magazine"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><B>*</B><A HREF="http://www.scaruffi.com/vol7/entropic.html#mon" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.scaruffi.com/vol7/entropic.ht"><U><B>Piero's online cultural magazine</B></U></A></div> <div> -<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#6666FF" FACE="Complex" >monkey with a gun</FONT></div> <div> Davis and Jones are the only personnel on Monkey With A Gun (Symbolic Insight, 2003). The sound relies even more heavily on Davis' ghostly trumpet, a worthy successor to Jon Hassell's fourth-world trumpet, particularly within the floating soundscapes of Charisma and Red Tide that open the disc. As usual, the most satisfying tracks are the lengthier ones. The musique concrete of Tweeter Reamer (eight minutes) slowly unfolds, and reveals whispers and echoes embedded in electronic clusters, thus creating a morbid and murderous atmosphere not too different from Nine Inch Nail's. The chamaleon-like Copper Glow (nine minutes) begins with the percussions unleashing a tribal fury in a jungle of subtle noises, and ends with the trumpet intoning middle-eastern melodies. By comparison with these sinister scores, the quiet and melodic Disc 56 (nine minutes) is easy-listening, soft jazz, trip-hop. The voodoo beat over a tide of samples in Bolt (ten minutes) is the most hypnotic moment of the album. The closing Affraid To Change is a subliminal psychodrama that relies on a steady pulse and whispered emotion-less lyrics, like Suicide (the New York band) in the stratosphere. For the record, City Of Gold is the closest thing to a "song" on this album. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="june_review"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>*</B><A HREF="http://home.comcast.net/~rotcod1/Z62Reviews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://home.comcast.net/~rotcod1/Z62Revi"><U><B>Improvijazzation Nation</B></U></A></div> <div> -<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#6666FF" FACE="Complex" >monkey with a gun</FONT></div> <div> Entropic Advance - MONKEY WITH A GUN: It sounds (to me) like they dinna' give that dam monkey a gun... they gave him access to th' mixer... & he staggered all kinds o' electronic beetz' in amongst Wesley Davis processed trumpet, spook-vox, etc., & Casey Jones guitars/filters/motors. We reviewed these folks double-CD effort in issue # 61... this "Monkey" thang lets th' electronics take off where "RED/YELLOW" left off, exploring th' "space between the beats", so to speak. I liked th' strange vocal mixes better than th' thrum/throb beats actually... trumpet sounds are really nice, too... "layered" is th' word. Sorta' like electro-space-trumpet-bendoid exploratory experimentia; there are few spots where th' bass/electro-beatz tried to eat my speakers, tho'. Nice cover art, sonically th' album gets a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED from us. If yer' only into funk, you'll go elsewhere, but if you like to travel th' wormholes of acidia while you cruise fer' phunk-ee stuph - this is IT! Contact at Entropic Advance, at www.entropicadvance.com Rotcod Zzaj </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="_april_2003_review_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>*April 2003 Review</B></div> <div> -<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#6666FF" FACE="Complex" >monkey with a gun</FONT></div> <div>  Seattle KMLP i-radio Dj's Wesley Davis' and Casey Jones' 5th release is a great example of how parts of hostile glitch experimental extravaganzas can be combined with parts of spacey lounge electronics. Their temporal and structural underpinnings evolve around broken d'n'b fragments; their gluing manipulation involves ambient noises and progressive pads tweaking. Occasional odd field recordings and tv samplings render it all more tangible, like if they want you to keep in touch with real life. With or without those reminders it's easy to get carried away by the beautiful atmospheres by Entropic Advance, with their reverb-washed and soaked treated trumpet, their deep-end subsonic component, their tranquil and classy pace, their elegant and sophisticated chord sequences (when there is such thing as a chord sequence), their dreamy and disturbing alien beats and so forth. Interestingly the duo also get exciting when they sing to what they do (think of Roger Waters, Trent Reznor, Tweaker, Dream Into Dust, think vaguely...). A pleasant surprise that you should take into consideration. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="_april_2003_review"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"