Audio CD review:
Man or Astro-man? - Made From Technetium

Man or Astro-man? - Made From Technetium

Band: Man or Astro-man? Title: Made From Technetium Rating: Release Date: 01 January, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Message from the CD 2: Lo Batt. 3: Jonathan Winters Frankenstein 4: Don't Think What Jack 5: Junk Satellite 6: 10 Years After World War 4 7: Saucerful of Secrets 8: Breathing Iron Oxide 9: Muzak for Cybernetics 10: Structo [Mr. Microphone Mixup] 11: Sound Waves Reversing 12: Theoretical Sounds of Slow Motion 13: Static Cling (Theme From) 14: Evert 1 Pipkin 15: Weightless at Zero Return

Editoral Review The four Alabamans--Birdstuff, Star Crunch, Coco, and Dexter X--sound more like Sonic Youth than the Surfaris on Technetium, though they haven't let down their space-age aesthetic a bit. By the time they released Made from Technetium in 1997, Man or Astro-Man? had been releasing records prolifically since 1993, most displaying a reverence for '60s surf music and irreverent intergalactic shtick. Titles such as "Structo (Mr. Microphone Mixup)" and "Theoretical Sounds of Slow Motion" contain grungy Batman guitar, feisty two-beat drumming, and vocal snippets from cheesy science-fiction movies, junior high science-class films, instructional tapes, and other odd sources. Elemental Astro-Man. --James Rotondi .. You can see a complete list of all Man or Astro-man? discography, or go back to the Man or Astro-man? tabs