Team Metlay... those two words inspire laughter,
or a shake of the head. The first of the great Internet electronic
superbands, launched at the dawn of the Net era, before the World Wide
Web, before most people even had computers in their homes, it gathered
musicians from around the world and brought them together in one place
to create music of power, madness, and majesty. Every two years, the
Team would reunite, putting human faces on the sterile dealings of the
Net, gathering in a studio and writing, playing, mixing, and completing
an entire album in one or two marathon sessions
Seven years since it was begun, the last Team Metlay album is here, and
it's been well worth the wait. Beneath Stars is a CD in two
wonderfully-matched parts: the first half, Badlands, is a careful
compositing of tracks from the 1996-1997 sessions rescued from the
dumpster, remastered and stripped of years of noise and crud, and the
second half, Beneath Electric Stars, is an edit of the Team's farewell
concert in January of 1999 at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder,
Colorado.
I, Assimilator
Unbroken
Meta (Zap 26)
Rethink/Pemungkah
Chiba!
To Depart, At Last
(Curtain)
Prologue: Gloria Speaks
Rsl
Fritz Ascending
Wiard on Acid
False Dawn
Loremarie
Coming Through 1999
Time For Heroes
Man With the World in His Head
Wheel of Stars
Epilogue: Gloria Speaks
Discusion con la Maquina
