Trance: Fatal Blow, by Mason Jones

Trance: Fatal Blow

by Mason Jones

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	1.	Force Walls 04:15
	2.	No Recall 03:20
	3.	Closed Eyes Die 02:59
	4.	Spewed Thoughts 01:31
	5.	Hate Cry 03:15
	6.	Alone 04:41
	7.	Calling For You 03:17
	8.	Purifying Flame 04:30
	9.	Change 03:49
	10.	Safety in Luminance 03:25
	11.	Cry for the Dying 04:30
	12.	Free Them All 02:55
	13.	Play It Safe 03:35
	14.	Amidst the Destruction 03:06
	15.	Battlefield: Hell 04:52
	16.	My Own Master 03:38

about

Fatal Blow was the first cassette I released under the name Trance, and is in a decidedly noise-rock vein. This was 1988, and following some weird 4-track experiments, I recorded this before, during, and after moving to California. It's clearly inspired by Big Black, Swans, Stick Dog, and similar things I was listening to at the time though it's got an industrial tinge to it thanks to SPK, Test Dept and so on. The original was a pretty muddy thing recorded on my trusty Tascam Porta-2 cassette 4-track, bouncing tracks to make room for everything. I've done some cleanup mastering but...it's still muddy and rough but that's okay.

Recorded using a Yamaha RX-15 drum machine, guitar, bass, metal and cardboard percussion, a tiny bit of Sequential Circuits Six-Trak synth, Alesis Midiverb II effects, and some super-cheap pedals I don't remember now.

Mason Jones: all instruments and noises, lyrics and vocals
With:
Drew Shell: lyrics for "Force Walls" and "Free Them All"
Evan Pert: answering machine message on "Spewed Thoughts"

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released October 1, 1988

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Mason Jones San Francisco, California

Mason is a San Francisco-based guitarist (mostly), founder of the Charnel Music label, ex-SubArachnoid Space, current Numinous Eye and Collision Stories member. Creator of many albums under many guises since the late '80s.

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