Clockseed

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Clockseed is the fourth studio album by Vampire Rodents, released on April 7, 1995, by Re-Constriction Records.

Music and lyrics

Clockseed has a larger number of guest vocalists than its predecessor, with Daniel handling vocal duties on only four out of twenty-two tracks. All the vocalists involved were known through Chase, who sent out tapes to anyone who could lend their lyrics and vocals to a track. Daniel has noted that they all wrote their parts completely without his direction and called it a great fortune to receive such incredible results from people he had never met.[2][3]

During the album's production, Re-Constriction Records label manager Chase mailed instrumental tapes to multiple musicians affiliated with the electro-industrial and Rivethead scenes for them to layer vocals and lyrics over. Christian Void of Killing Floor received the tracks for "Dowager's Egg" and "Mother Tongue" and chose the former to compose with. Concerning the lyrical content, Void stated "It is about people with disease like HIV and AIDS and how the public perceives them, and about things that happen to them because of their disease" that decries people being made into pariahs by society.[4] Written by Chemlab vocalist Jared Louche, "Low Orbit" is about two of his deceased friend appearing to him in his sleep. He has said the song was "influenced by my having had a series of dreams involving Craig and another friend who had died of a brain tumor around that time. They were haunting the orbits of my dreams."[5] Jason Bazinet of SMP (Sounds of Mass Production) has voiced his displeasure with his and Sean's work on "Revisioned", noting that they may have rushed the lyrics.[6] It is about people with disease like HIV and AIDS and how the public perceives them, and about things that happen to them because of their disease.

Release and reception

Despite being out of print, the album can still be bought through the Vampire Rodents eBay page.

Aiding & Abetting gave it a positive review, saying that "while a little more accessible than Lullaby Land, Clockseed is still a compendium of discord and sonic discrepancies."[7]

Track listing

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Accolades

Year Publication Country Accolade Rank
1995 CMJ New Music Monthly United States "Dance" 22 [8]
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Personnel

Adapted from the Clockseed liner notes.[9]

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Additional musicians

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Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1995 Re-Constriction CD REC-017

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bush, John. "Clockseed". Allmusic. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  2. ^ Vampire Rodents/Ether Bunny Interview 2007!. Daniel Vahnke interview. Retrieved on July 22, 2010.
  3. ^ Gariboldi, Marco. Vampire Rodents (Daniel Vahnke) (2009). e-mail interview, retrieved on August 26, 2010.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christian, Chris (July 6, 1996). "Interview with Killing Floor, San Francisco". Sonic Boom. 4 (11). Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  5. ^ pHil. Chemlab - Teaching you how to bleed Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Jared Louche interview, Retrieved on August 26, 2010.
  6. ^ Jester. Interview with Jason Bazinet of SMP Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved on August 26, 2010.
  7. ^ "Vampire Rodents: Clockseed". Aiding & Abetting. April 1995. Issue #74, cited August 26, 2010
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CMJ - Rock Dance". CMJ New Music Monthly. August 1995. Retrieved January 9, 2011.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Clockseed (booklet). Vampire Rodents. San Diego, California: Re-Constriction Records. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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