Distraction by Illusion of Safety

Released 1994 by Odd SIze records. All sound by Dan Burke with Chris Block and Jim O. (guitar) on Helen.
ILLUSION OF SAFETY Distraction.
IoS has been charting their own distinctive course for some time now,
and under many shadowy guises: they've instigated corrosive noise,
industrial rhythm music, musique concrete and explored the wide
contours of pure sound collage. The nucleus of the 'band' has always
been multi-instrumentalist Dan Burke, although the lack of linear
notes in the digipak fail to indicate whether others are involved.
Distraction is an exercise in plundersonics--Burke travels throughout
the electronic spectrum, as the single 63-track goes through warped,
backwards classical motifs, marauding drum machines attempting invoke
martial law, film samples, and all sorts of machine hums, feedback
and indefinable noises. It's a stereophonic collage wrenched from the
vast history of music and it's intertwined with electronic
technology, with a vast amount of plucked, refined and reconfigured
sounds. Thematically, it doesn't get into a cohesive whole, but this
kind of stuff rarely does: like a cinematic documentary edited with
a '90s hyper-brutality, the patient listener is rewarded by the sheer
richness of the work's various component parts.

Tracklist

1.	Thermonuclear Holy War	3:31

2.	Fragments Of Memory	3:58

3.	40 Hour A Week Perk	1:15

4.	Con ED	2:09

5.	Imposture	4:45

6.	The White Zone	8:54

7.	Helen Your Brain, Forever Since About Breakfast	11:44

8.	History Is Written By The Winners	3:59

9.	Moment	4:03

10.	Repairs	3:47

11.	Rainbow	1:21

12.	Outhouse	0:34

13.	Vasectomy	12:31

14.	Existence Is Fleeting	0:25

Videos

Credits

released January 2, 1994

Existence Is Fleeting

License

License varies by track. See the invidual track pages for details.