- No Expectations
- Learn To Enjoy Losing
- Raining Outside And In
- Autophobia
- Revel In You
- Ruff & Tumble
- Stumbling, Stoned And Broke
- I'm Easy
- Ignore The Nightmare
- What's Mine Is Yours
- Into The Void
- Rip It Up
All tracks written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil O'Brien.
Cover art by Neil O'Brien.
Well, the title of this 7th Rude Corps album is a bit on the nose. Yet another record with no underlying plan or theme, and consequently, it's not one that has ever stuck in my mind. And yet... listening back to it again, it's actually more interesting than I expected. There's some pretty nifty breakbeats and some nice production touches. I think the arrangements are a big improvement on Relapse even though the writing of these two albums actually overlapped. The sound is still a bit rough around the edges as I was still mainly using sampled instruments from my keyboard, though it seems I was getting more into sample-mangling and improving my use of FX. One thing that does jump out at me is the different drum sounds: evidently I had just gotten a one-hit drum sample pack, the name of which I can't recall offhand, but I recognise the samples are all over this record. I suspect this album was mainly just me gleefully playing with fun new drum samples.
There was apparently supposed to be vocals on "Into The Void" but I have no idea what happened to the lyrics or how vocals would even fit. Given how crap my vocals were at this stage, it's probably for the best. I think this album does run out of steam a bit towards the end, mainly in tracks 9 & 10, although "Into The Void" did pleasantly surprise me with the lush pads in the second half of the track, after that goofy sub-Prodigy styled opening, and "Rip It Up" does just about manage to rally a final energy-blast and bring the album to a suitable close. All in all, this one is better than I remember it: certainly it's still a minor work, but it's miles better than Nihilist-Hedonist or Moving Targets, and I dare say I enjoyed it more than Relapse, even though it's far less substantive than that. The version I'll be making available is a re-mix from January 2010: it's still quite a flawed mix actually, but compared the original 2005 mix, it is at least listenable.