Show Date: Tuesday September 12, 2000
Show #150
Mike McLatchey's Best of 2000



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Playlist:
# Artist Song (click to play) Album Year CD label My
Gnosis
Rating
1 Spiral Architect Cloud Constructor A Sceptic's Universe 2000 Laser's Edge / Sensory 12 (Mike's)
"A heady, complex technical metal newcomer who sound like they've been playing for years, Spiral Architect are definitely in the Watchtower school of twisting, turning pyrotechnics, mowing down shifting time signatures at ease while still managing to pull out memorable hooks, and intelligent, thought-provoking lyrics. Even if the thought of prog-metal gives you weak knees, this is an album good enough to surpass the limitations of genre and comes highly recommended." - Mike McLatchey of Expose and Gnosis
Spiral Architect
Laser's Edge / Sensory Label
 
2 Species Being Orgone Therapy - Track 1 Orgone Therapy 2000 Chaosophy Records 13 (Mike's)
"The sophomore effort by this excellent, improvisationally-based San Francisco area band turns towards Agitation Free and Ash Ra Tempel territory. The entire album is improvised, an amazing display of connected interplay resulting in echoing guitar passages, unbelievably tight drumming, and loads of lush and spacious keyboards. That it shows such a high level of togetherness and melodic interaction is a tribute to this amazingly cohesive act." - Mike McLatchey of Expose and Gnosis
Species Being / Chaosophy Records
 
3 Exuviae Silencia (excerpt) Echoes In The Emptiness 2000 Green House Music 13 (Mike's)
"An example from the ambient school of just how fertile this genre is at the turn of the millenium. Exuviae is synthesist Brooks and this is his debut album from the Green House label. It is spacious, resonant, atmospheric music that pulls in influences as early as the Berlin school (shades of Tangerine Dream "Rubycon" here) and as recent as people like Steve Roach and Michael Stearns. A cosmic, spacious modern classic." - Mike McLatchey of Expose and Gnosis
Green House Music
Hypnos
 
4 Azigza Touch Moon Window Azigza 2000 Lionharp Music 14 (Mike's)
"Azigza are a San Francisco bay area-based septet whose original combination of world music both east and west, progressive and psychedelic influences, and sheer talent makes them one of the finest new outfits of recent years. Featuring a line up of three percussionists, female vocals, guitar, bass, and violin (and much more), Azigza weave an exotic and eclectic web of music that spans updated traditionals, a Led Zeppelin track, and a heady spaciousness close to Gong. Perhaps the finest release of 2000." - Mike McLatchey of Expose and Gnosis
Azigza
 
5 Kenso The Ancient In My Brain Ken-Son-Gu-Su 2000 ? 13 (Mike's)
"Kenso's newest live album, which will be available in November 2000, was sold in a very small quantity on the tail of their stunning performance at Progfest 2000. Featuring a wide variety of material from their long career, it shows the band fully into their prime, displaying a complex symphonic style played with consummate professionality. That, in a long career, this could possibly be their greatest album, speaks volumes for this top-notch Japanese quintet." - Mike McLatchey of Expose and Gnosis
Kenso - Official Home Page (English)
 


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