Third Eye Foundation is the project of Matt Elliot, a protagonist of the Bristol 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.

With You Guys Kill Me (Merge, 1998) Elliot forgoes creative chaos and focuses on past experiments. Dominating the record are the fast-moving symphonic masses over a Brazilian rhythm of A Galaxy Of Scars, or the subdued bellowing of trombones over the dense drums'n'bass trepidation of That Would Be Exhibiting The Same Weak Traits, sonic gestures no less audacious but concise and cohesive. There's A Fight At The End Of The Tunnel laps Klaus Schulze's cosmic symphony, and In Bristol With A Pistol, having abandoned techno cadences, resembles 1960s psychedelic suites. Only I'm Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired resurrects the edginess of the early days.
Elliot sometimes gets carried away with his phenomenal ability to manipulate sounds to artificially produce the equivalent of an "instrument" (For All The Brothers And Sisters is in fact a free-jazz solo for abstract instrument), but in general he puts his prodigious technique at the service of atmospheres. Thus are born the minimalist figures that, driven by a trombone fanfare, overlap in An Even Harder Shade Of Dark More human sounds populate the background. In the field of instrumental music, Elliot has coined a style that harkens back to that of Brian Eno, but treasuring modern studio collage techniques.

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Tracklist:

A Galaxy Of Scars 00:00
For All The Brothers And Sisters 06:56
There's A Fight At The End Of The Tunnel 11:10
An Even Harder Shade Of Dark 15:50
Lions Writing The Bible 24:25
No Dove No Covenant 26:26
I'm Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired 31:21
That Would Be Exhibiting The Same Weak Traits 35:59
In Bristol With A Pistol 42:06
Fear of a Wack Planet 45:10
A Galaxy of Scars (Version) 52:29
In Bristol With A Pistol (The Full 9mm) 01:00:30

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Third Eye Foundation / Collected Works (Disc 2 - You Guys Kill Me)

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