{"id":1525,"date":"2010-03-18T07:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/?page_id=1525"},"modified":"2010-03-18T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:32:20","slug":"steroid-maximus-ectopia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/discography\/releases\/steroid-maximus-ectopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Steroid Maximus: Ectopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n<h3>Release Information<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ectopia  (CD, Album)<br \/>\nIpecac Recordings, Ectopic Ents. IPC 28, ECT ENTS 023 US 2002<\/p>\n<p>Ectopia (CD, Album)<br \/>\nIpecac Recordings, Ectopic Ents. IPC 28, ECT ENTS 023 Europe 2002<\/p>\n<h3>Track Listing <\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/content\/shop\/#023\">Purchase CD<\/a> | <a href=\"\/content\/shop\/#023\">Purchase MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n01. The Trembler<br \/>\n02. Seventy Cops<br \/>\n03. L\u2019espion Qui A Pleure<br \/>\n04. Naught<br \/>\n05. Chain Reaction<br \/>\n06. Bad Day In Greenpoint<br \/>\n07. Aclectasis<br \/>\n08. Tarmac a Gris Gris<br \/>\n09. Pusher Jones<br \/>\n10. Wm <br \/>\n11. Chaiste<br \/>\n12. Enzymes<\/p>\n<h3>Release Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Steroid Maximus is an instrumental side project of J.G. Thirlwell. Thirlwell is best known for his main band, Foetus. Steroid Maximus contains elements of jazz, big band, avant-garde, soundtrack and exotica styles.<\/p>\n<p>The track \u201c\u2018Pusher\u2019 Jones\u201d saw previous light as \u201cJones\u201d on the mtv.com website, as a track available for user download &amp; remixing via Beatnik software; \u201cJones\u201d being an early, different version.<\/p>\n<h3>Reviews<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jim Thirwell\u2019s third album under the guise of Steroid Maximus is an epic, cinematic vacation from the razor-gargled industrial pound of Foetus. The underlying thread of irreverent and sophisticated humor (throughout all of Thirwell\u2019s work) is immediately apparent in the album title\u2019s play against the Futurist (utopian) cover art. Ectopia means \u201ca morbid displacement of parts.\u201d Unsurprisingly, this mostly instrumental album splices a multitude of parts: unlikely genres, samples and sounds into a compelling collage. Various parts include strains of horror strings, sci-fi theremin wailing, jazzy synths, 70\u2032s cop-chase rhythm piano, funk drums, whimsical toy whistles, ecstatic swing band crescendos, mournful operatic vocalizations, hawaiian sunrise, gypsy music, and even a straight-up sample of James Bond suspense-moment near the end, just to name a few. One of my favorite parts of the disc is \u201cWM ,\u201d where a couple of shortwave radio samples form a bouncy passage over tribal drums and xylophones. Thirwell clearly maintains his proclivity for cartoonish dynamism (he did a bang-up cover of the classic Raymond Scott tune \u201cPowerhouse\u201d on 1992\u2032s \u2018Gondwanaland\u2019), as the pace rollercoasters throughout the disc\u2019s 52 minutes. It\u2019s an energizing listen, and reminded me at times of Igor Wakhevitch , or the soundtrack work of Goblin (\u2018Suspiria\u2019, \u2018Dawn of the Dead\u2019, etc) and Alain Goraguer (\u2018Fantastic Planet\u2019), with big band splash and modern synth lines. Someone needs to hurry up and hire this guy to start scoring films&mdash;or maybe start making movies to go along with these soundtracks. &ndash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainwashed.com\/brain\/contributors.html\">Jesse Nieminen<\/a>, Brainwashed.com<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-5\">\n<br \/>\n<img align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/gallery\/albums\/ectopia.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release Information Ectopia (CD, Album) Ipecac Recordings, Ectopic Ents. IPC 28, ECT ENTS 023 US 2002 Ectopia (CD, Album) Ipecac Recordings, Ectopic Ents. IPC 28, ECT ENTS 023 Europe 2002 Track Listing Purchase CD | Purchase MP3 01. The Trembler 02. Seventy Cops 03. L\u2019espion Qui A Pleure 04. Naught 05. Chain Reaction 06. 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