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The Third Eye Foundation
12+ albums
electronicidmexperimentalDrum and bassillbient
about
Third Eye Foundation is the project of Matt Elliott, a protagonist of the Bristol, UK scene, first active with Flying Saucer Attack and then with Amp, but stylistically affiliated to the jungle scene. His approach to dance music harks back to 1970s industrial music, in particular to Throbbing Gristle's cacophony, and therefore resulted in sonic puzzles of difficult appeal. On the debut album Semtex (Linda's Strange Vacation, 1995), and on the collection of collaborations In Version (Linda's Strange Vacation, 1996), Elliott was helped out only by Debbie Parsons. Semtex (Linda's Strange Vacation, 1995) is all about lo-fi production, atmospheric guitar textures (Seefeel-grade guitar-based ambient music) and jungle breakbeats. Sleep is the best amalgam of shoegazing and jungle. When the beat chills down, 3EF drifts in Orb-grade trance (Dreams On His Fingers, the 12-minute Once When I Was An Indian). Among attempts to build a classical music out of dance music, 3EF's non-dancefloor drum'n'bass ranks as one of the boldest ideas. A stronger dub vibration permeates the collaborations on In Version (Linda's Strange Vacation, 1996). Short Wave Dub (with Amp), Superconstellation (with Crescent), Eyes (with Hood), the 17-minute Way Out (with Flying Saucer Attack) tend to be spacier and trancier. Each episode is stretched to the limit and ultimately annoys. This version of 3EF resembles Bill Laswell's omnivorous and interminable dub jams. Ghost (Domino, 1997) replaced guitars with samp
top songs
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A Galaxy of Scars
9,7212In Bristol With a Pistol
9,6903Lions Writing the Bible
8,9574Anhedonia
8,0185I've Lost That Loving Feline
6,7216There's a Fight at the End of the Tunnel
6,5647What Is It With You
6,5258For All the Brothers and Sisters
6,1829No Dove No Covenant
5,71610An Even Harder Shade of Dark
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