Cancer by Illusion of Safety
Originally recorded November 1990-Februrary 1991 as digital direct recordings and as 8 Track analog recordings engineered by Phil Bonnet at Solid Sound. Originally released as CD by Tesco Organization 1992.
For IOS: Chris Block, Daniel Burke, Mitch Enderle, Mark Klein, Jim O'Rourke, Mitch Enderle, Thymme Jones.
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newly remastered version (by Andrew Weathers) as DL & 12" vinyl of 250 copies released by Aufabwegen avail here:
https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/album/cancer-2025-lp-remaster
Credits
This one was mostly a group effort focused on a dark ambient atmospheric environment and experimental minimalism that crawls under your skin. Mark & Thymme’s heavy synth is omnipresent, Mitch & Chris scraping every piece of scrap metal they could find, Jim’s extended piano & tabletop guitar is apparent, the abstract sampling techniques of founding member Daniel Burke appear throughout, & the beautiful solo minimalist piano composition of Thymme’s closes the LP. Soundtrack like in its scope the album is another in the ongoing concept of music without a film providing a dark soundtrack to the nightmares or realities we wish we could forget.
License
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Since 1983, Burke and his many conspirators under the IOS banner have over the course of 40+ releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful.