Continuum (Mentallo & The Fixer album)

Continuum is a compilation album by Mentallo & The Fixer, released on November 14, 1995 by Metropolis Records.[2][3][4]

Continuum
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 14, 1995 (1995-11-14)[1]
Recorded1990 (1990)–1993 (1993)
Studio
Various
GenreElectro-industrial
Length71:28
LabelMetropolis
Mentallo & The Fixer chronology
Mentallo & The Fixer Meets Mainesthai
(1994)
Continuum
(1995)
Centuries
(1997)
Alternative cover
2018 remaster cover
2018 remaster cover

Music

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Continuum comprises remastered tracks and remixes from Mentallo & The Fixer's recording sessions circa 1990 to 1993. The collection also draws from the band's first two releases, 1991's Wreckage + Ruin + & + Regrets + (Redemption) and 1992's No Rest for the Wicked.[5][6][4]

On February 16, 2018 the album was issued as a music download by Alfa Matrix on the label's Bandcamp.[7][8][4]

Reception

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Sonic Boom was somewhat positive towards Continuum, calling the album "more of a greatest hits & misses compilation released so that the fans might have an idea of where the band has come from musically" and that "some tracks have the distinct MATF feel to them and others are quite unlike anything else they have ever written before."[6]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Dwayne Dassing and Gary Dassing

No.TitleLength
1."Wicked" (Extra Sensory Perception)4:50
2."Perish in Peril" (Acoustikal)4:10
3."Mescaline"1:01
4."Narcotic"7:17
5."Doomsday Accelerate"6:55
6."Perish in Peril"6:42
7."Wicked"6:06
8."Clusterfuck"2:06
9."Continuum"4:58
10."Narcotic" (Crystal Methane)5:11
11."Peril"4:23
12."Natalia"8:17
13."Wicked" (Psychokinetic)11:11

Personnel

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Adapted from the Continuum liner notes.[9]

Mentallo & The Fixer

Production and design

  • Ric Laciak – design
  • Chris Spoonts – mastering

Release history

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Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1995 Metropolis CD MET 013
Germany Off Beat SPV 080-22392
Belgium 2018 Alfa Matrix DL AM3255DJ

References

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  1. ^ Barnhart, Becky (1999). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. 9 (2). Stereophile, Incorporated: 173. ISBN 9781575980782. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  2. ^ Kavadias, Theo. "Mentallo & the Fixer: Continuum > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Bush, John. "Mentallo & the Fixer > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Zlaya Zgombic, Zlatko (August 28, 2017). "Mentallo and The Fixer – Rearranging Molecules: Interview With Gary Dassing of Mentallo and The Fixer". Wire Trap. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  5. ^ Baumgartner, Geoff (May 19, 1999). "Mentallo and the Fixer: Algorhythum". Ink 19. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  6. ^ a b Christian, Chris (December 1995). "Mentallo & The Fixer: Mentallo & The Fixer". Sonic Boom. 3 (9). Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  7. ^ Buljeta, Marija (March 25, 2018). "Mentallo & The Fixer Reissued the Remastered Back-Catalogue". ALTvenger Magazine. ALTvenger. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  8. ^ Yücel, Ilker (February 19, 2018). "Alfa Matrix Releases Reissues of Mentallo & The Fixer and Side Projects, Remastered by Gary Dassing". ReGen. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  9. ^ Continuum (booklet). Mentallo & The Fixer. Horster Str., Gelsenkirchen/Chicago, Illinois: Metropolis Records/Off Beat. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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