{"id":20286,"date":"2022-02-07T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?page_id=20286"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T13:56:19","slug":"1993-cmj-review-steroid-maxiumus-gondawanaland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/press\/interviews-and-reviews\/1993-cmj-review-steroid-maxiumus-gondawanaland\/","title":{"rendered":"1993 CMJ Review Steroid Maxiumus: Gondawanaland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STEROID MAXIMUS: GONDWANALAND<\/p>\n<p>Considering his foray into instrumental music for MTV Sports, it&#8217;s not surprising that the prolific, diverse Jim Thirlwell would eventually focus primarily on soundtrack music. Gondwanaland sounds as if it were the score for a leather-clad James Bond movie, full of high-action chases and plenty of suspense. The pieces, although not songs per se, move in a natural progression towards a climax and are more obtrusive than the usual soundtrack release. The wailing Arabic sample of &#8220;Radio Raheem,&#8221; for example, as well as the four movements of &#8220;The Bowel Of Beelzebub&#8221; (it is still Foetus, after all), return constantly to a homing point, creating a traditional song structure with a nontraditional format. The one cover, Raymond Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Powerhouse!,&#8221; shows that Thirlwell knows exactly what he&#8217;s doing-the manic hijinks of Scott&#8217;s composition is ideally suited to Jim&#8217;s world by the blasts of horns and industrial squawks. Gondwanaland stands up surprisingly well to repeated listenings, and offers a compromise between background and interactive music. Danny Elfman, watch out.<\/p>\n<p>CMJ New Music Report,  Issue# 316 (22 Jan 1993), by Megan McLaughlin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEROID MAXIMUS: GONDWANALAND Considering his foray into instrumental music for MTV Sports, it&#8217;s not surprising that the prolific, diverse Jim Thirlwell would eventually focus primarily on soundtrack music. Gondwanaland sounds as if it were the score for a leather-clad James Bond movie, full of high-action chases and plenty of suspense. The pieces, although not songs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20287,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20286\/revisions\/20287"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}