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P R E S E N T S .. █▓ █▓ ▀▓ Stars of the Lid - Music for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Re █▓ ARTiST..[ Stars of the Lid █▓ TiTLE...[ Music for Nitrous Oxide (30 Year Anniversary Remastere GENRE...[ Electronic CAT#....[ APAMFG05CD LABEL...[ Artificial Pinearch ManuENCODER.[ Lame 3.100 YEAR....[ 2025 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps SOURCE..[ WEB (FLAC) MODE....[ Joint Stereo PLAYTIME[ 74:53 REL.DATE[ 07.26.2025 TRACKS..[ 09 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA SiZE....[ 171,56 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. T R A C K L i S T .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ █▓ █▓ ▀▓ NR. TRACK. TiME. █▓ █▓ 01 Before Top Dead Center (2025 Remaster) 05:25 02 Adamord (2025 Remaster) 11:53 03 Madison (2025 Remaster) 09:30 04 Down (2025 Remaster) 06:30 05 Lagging (2025 Remaster) 03:55 06 Live Lid (2025 Remaster) 08:03 07 Tape Hiss Makes Me Happy (2025 Remaster) 13:07 08 The Swellsong (2025 Remaster) 09:16 09 Goodnight (2025 Remaster) 07:14 TOTAL: 74:53 █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. R E L E A S E N O T E S .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ █▓ █▓ ▀▓ █▓ █▓ https://starsofthelid.bandcamp.com/album/music- for-nitrous-oxide-30-year-anniversary- remastered-2 Boomkat Product Review: Remastered for its 30th anniversary, Stars of the Lid's polarisingly gloomy, tape-saturated debut is finally back - and on vinyl for the first time. A far cry from the duo's later material, it catches SoTL at their most raw and experimental, with Adam Wiltzie setting amp- damaged guitar drones over Brian McBride's growling concrete tape loops and pulverized samples - think Eno, Labradford or Basinski. When you think about Stars of the Lid, it's almost too easy to default to the over- plagiarised e-bowed hums that anchored 2001's 'The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid' or the modish neoclassical motifs of its critically revered follow-up 'And Their Refinement of the Decline'. But the band had been operating for years prior to this; Wiltzie and McBride had met in Austin while they were both studying at the University of Texas, and Wiltzie had been a fan of McBride's experimental student radio show. They officially assembled in 1992 and started sketching ideas using a four-track recorder, a Casio SK-5 sampler and a few guitars, countering Austin's tired rock fixations with doggedly unpopular music inspired by David Lynch's heaving 'Eraserhead' soundscapes and Gavin Bryars' eerie 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Listening to this early, noisy material now, it's easier to understand why McBride and Wiltzie were lumped together with post-rock bands like Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai. Recorded without access to proper studio equipment, there's a punk aesthetic iat the core of 'Music for Nitrous Oxide' that had all but disappeared by the time they reached 1997's beloved 'The Ballasted Orchestra'. Tune into '(Live) Lid', a basement jam recorded straight to DAT, and you can hear how SoTL connects the dots between proto-post rock acts like Sonic Youth and Swans, and the duo's contemporaries like Windy & Carl, Labradford and Low. Piercing feedback and extended bowed guitar tones are beefed up with MBV-like layers of distortion, and drums (yep, really) just rattle away off camera, seemingly catching a sub-50bpm slowcore groove - it's definitely not ambient in the Eno sense, and if it's rock it's been opiated until there's little left. Truthfully, Wiltzie and McBride were early adopters, following a genre-agnostic trajectory that was so prophetic that they'd have a global legion of followers within a few years. In the past, when artists so often followed scenes that critics saw it as their duty to delineate, it was hard to peer outside those boundaries - even The Dead C's 'Harsh '70s Reality', released just three years before 'Music for Nitrous Oxide', was a fractalisation on various rawk shards: psych, punk, blues and prog. SoTL on the other hand felt almost anti-rock, as if they were using the cheap, democratized methods provided to them by rock's popularity to reach for loftier ends. Sampling 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' on 'Down', they weren't a million miles away from Orbital thematically, but took an American approach to the bleary-headed afters experience, collaging piano loops and vinyl crackle and noisy bowed harmonies to provide a crash pad for late nights watching B-movies and necking European wine - it's no accident that the album was originally released on wine distributor Rob Forman's aptly monikered Sedimental label. Now reissued for the first time on vinyl via Wiltzie's own Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing label, 'Music for Nitrous Oxide' should finally get the full appreciation that's eluded it for years. █▓ ▄▓ █▓ .. G R O U P .. █▓ ▄▓█▓ █▓ ▄▓▀│ MAiL: [email protected] █▓ █▓ ▀▓ The only thing that really matters is music!!! █▓ █▓ ▄▓ . ▄▓ .. G R E E T S .. ▄▓ . ▄▓ ▄▓ . FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET . ▄▓ RIP kHz ▄▓ . ▀▓ . .. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .. . ▀▓ .