Brian Eno / Fractal Zoom
Artist Brian Eno
Album Title: Fractal Zoom
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Avant Rock
Format CD Single
Released 04/28/1992
Label Opal Records/Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Catalog No 9 40539-2
Bar Code No 0 9362-40539-2 7
Packaging Digipack
Tracks
1. Fractal Zoom (Separate Time Edit) (4:14)
2. Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday Edit) (3:50)
3. Fractal Zoom (Up River Mix) (8:10)
4. Fractal Zoom (Small Country) (7:00)
5. The Roil, The Choke (5:03)
6. Fractal Zoom (Naive Mix I) (5:27)
7. Fractal Zoom (Zaire Mix) (6:16)
8. Fractal Zoom (Naive Mix II) (5:56)
9. Fractal Zoom (Landed Mix) (5:55)
10. Fractal Zoom (Bucolic Mix) (4:44)
11. Fractal Zoom (Separate Time Full Length) (6:26)
12. Fractal Zoom (Mary's Birthday Mix) (7:06)
Date Acquired 09/12/1992
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 12.00

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Review by David Ross Smith
Fractal Zoom, a companion to the CD EP Ali Click, features 11 lengthy mixes of the title track. Originally found on Eno's Nerve Net (1992), this great techno rocker with incomprehensible lyrics is prime material in the hands of Moby, responsible for seven of the mixes, and Markus Draws, who turns in four. There is some refreshing and even unlikely material here. Isaac Osapanin spices the "Up River Mix" with a taste of bongos, while "Small Country" contains David Byrne-like lyrics not included on the album version of "Fractal Zoom." Tracks nine and ten, the "Landed Mix" and "Bucolic Mix," are ambient takes on the original cut. "Landed" is particularly subtle and both mixes resemble the atmospheric work on Music for Films and Apollo. "The Roil, the Choke," also originally from Nerve Net, finds Eno creating words and rhymes based on the phonetic roots "oil" and "oke." The composition contains some of the same ingredients (structure and sound) found in earlier Eno works, such as "The Belldog," "Spider and I" and "The River."
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