BIOPSY - Cervix State Sequences
Songs: 13  Time:  58:51
Biopsy, consisting of two members of the South American electro outfit knows as Aghast View, assaults the U.S. with their second release, entitled Cervix State Sequences.  Treading on familiar territory, they return with an electro sound that runs the gamut between break-beat styled industrial riddled with snippets of hard guitar riffs, to melodic, semi ethereal instrumentals and they even toss in a cover of New Order’s Fine Time.  Indifference kicks off this wonderful CD with a reggae influenced rhythm line and distorted vocals, but before you get adjust your internal audio monitors the song takes off with throttling guitars, roughed up beats, hip-hop samples, and low ended sequences.  This song goes through several changes, sounding at times like the Swamp Terrorists on acid while at others times it is reminiscent of intelligent dance music.  This is a powerful track and would be worth the price of the CD alone.  Next up we have Hypoxia, a dark track that melds together EBM and thrash / guitar industrial.  Also present are subtle break-beats and insane sequence programming.  What begins as a noise collage, Cervix (Morphologic Mixx) quickly picks up speed as it introduces the apocalyptic samples, twisted vocals, and a beat that weaves itself back and forth between hip-hop and straight ahead electro dance.  The music of Shade of Sickness dabbles in the coldwave genre while the vocals are delivered in a more rap style.  Vocoder effected vocals are mixed with cascading sequences and a pulsating rhythm on CX State.  Harsh Disposal begins with a tribalistic beat that soon gets loose and becomes more techno like while the bleepy electronics (ala Babyland) play on in the background.  Again, as on most of the tracks on this CD, this one is loaded with samples.  Off of possibly the last decent album by New Order, Biopsy extract Fine Time and cover it with energy, angst and aggression.  Turbulent guitar riffs, contorted vocals, and a few samples from the original tune are all blended together to create this dance floor stomper.  Alter Idem is a slower, more soundtrack orientated piece that gives the listener a break from all the power of the 1st half of the CD.  It’s sound brings to mind images of traveling by boat through a tropical rain forest (don’t ask me why…)  Lumen Obscura is another instrumental, but this one is more electronic / electro sounding.  Still, with the samples chosen, it has a definite tribal feel to it.  Finally, Binary CX is a slowed down, less aggressive, non-vocal interpretation of CX State.  The album rounds out with two remixes, one for Cervix and one for Hypoxia, both of which are strong reworkings of their respective originals.  Biopsy’s style is definitely wide-spread, in that the music covers quite a range of electronic styles.  Cervix State Sequences is one of the strongest releases to come out in 1997 and will easily carry us over until the new Aghast View is released.
       
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USA
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Biopsy is:
Guiherme Pires / Fabricio Viscardi
Contact Biopsy @
Rua Herminio H. Bertani 180
Campinas S.P. 13093440
Brasil
e-mail: aghastv@dglnet.com.br
or bvisc@dglnet.com.br
Biopsy homepage:
http://www.ebm.pucpr.br/biopsy/biopsy.htm