Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)

Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)
Studio album by
Alec Empire
Released18 December 1995 (1995-12-18)
Recorded4–7 August 1995, Iceland
Genre
Length59:59
LabelMille Plateaux
ProducerAlec Empire
Alec Empire chronology
Generation Star Wars
(1994) 		Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions)
(1995) 		Hypermodern Jazz
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Low on Ice (The Iceland Sessions) (commonly known as just Low on Ice) is the second solo studio album by German electronic artist Alec Empire, the third of five of his to be released on the Mille Plateaux label. Issued in 1995, Empire recorded the album over three days in August that same year during a tour of Iceland with his band Atari Teenage Riot.[2] Primarily written outdoors in tents and recorded onto analog tapes,[3][4] the record is noted for its ambient overtone,[1][4][5] something not commonly associated with Empire's music.

Plans were announced of a triple-CD reissue containing unreleased archive material,[6] this deluxe reissue was released in December 2020 through Alec Empire's website as Low on Ice (The Trilogy). An NFT edition featuring the same track list and different cover art was released later through OpenSea. "22:24", "Low on Ice", "metall Dub" and both untitled tracks would later be included on the compilation album The Geist of Alec Empire.[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alec Empire.

Disc One: Low On Ice
No.TitleLength
1."37.2 Pt.1"7:23
2.Untitled6:44
3."20 (1)"4:09
4."20 (2)"2:17
5."22:24"6:24
6.Untitled6:24
7."Low on Ice"7:55
8."Metall Dub"7:00
9."2572"4:20
10."We Were Burnt"4:13
11."37.2 Pt.2" (not included in deluxe edition)0:56
Total length:59:59
Disc Two: The Precipice
No.TitleLength
1."The Report"7:11
2."her shadows"5:15
3."ce:isir"8:35
4."d ew"8:37
5."Metall Dub Zwei"5:03
6."8:03am"5:03
7."Eruption"7:37
8."wolfs mensch"13:22
9."error control"4:30
Total length:65:13
Disc Three: The White Zone
No.TitleLength
1."Verusche Radio Signal"8:26
2."icicles"6:36
3."as the temperature decreased"9:30
4."Todesstarre"2:45
5."it found a host"10:29
6."Verloren"6:31
Total length:44:17
169:29 (total)

References

  1. ^ a b AllMusic review
  2. ^ The Mille Plateaux Years [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310220906/http://www.alecempirefansite.com/mp/mille_plateaux_notes.html Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, AlecEmpireFansite.com, last accessed 2007-10-12.
  3. ^ Walters, Sarah (2015-02-20). "High on innovation: Alec Empire debuts his seminal Low On Ice album in Manchester". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2018-12-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b n/a. "Alec Empire Talks". theransomnote.com. The Ransom Note. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  5. ^ Richter, Andreas (2015-01-08). "Alec Empire verweigert den quality content". noisey.vice.com. Vice. Retrieved 2018-12-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Jacquet, Marianne (2018-02-03). "Breaking the Ice with Alec Empire - An Interview". kaltblut-magazine.com. Kaltblut Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Bush, John. "Review of The Geist of Alec Empire". allmusic.com. Allmusic Guide. Retrieved 2018-12-25.


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