- Deep Frieze
Infobox Album
Name = Deep_Frieze
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist =SleepResearch_Facility
Released = 12 April 2007
Recorded =
Genre =Dark ambient
Length =
Label = Cold Spring
Producer = Kevin Doherty
Reviews = *Steve Roach , "Outstanding", [http://www.steveroach.com/store/store.php?item=387 link]
Last album = "" (2004)
This album = "Deep_Frieze" (2007)
Next album ="Deep_Frieze" is the fourth album by dark ambient artist
SleepResearch_Facility .Overview
The album is described as "Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates" on the website of the record label, Cold Spring. Each of the five tracks is associated with a particular location in
Antarctica .The album's tagline is printed inside the CD booklet:
:"...there is a certain comforting warmth in the encroaching slumber of hypothermia"
The album cover shown on this page is an early draft. On the finished cover, the artist name is printed as "SleepResearchFacility" instead of "sleep research facility", the album name is printed as "Deep_Frieze" instead of "DEEP FRIEZE", and the text follows the curved lines on the map.
History
The concept of the album was first mentioned in the interview with Ortus Obscurum, sometime between 2001 and 2003:
:"Having recently watched a documentary about remote weather stations on the Antarctic continent I've been working with a lot of expansive "frosty" textures - the words "Deep Frieze" keep popping into my head as a potential working title."
In June 2003, early mixes of three of the album tracks were made available as MP3s on the Audio Project Archive page of the official website (these are still available – see Free audio below).
The album was mentioned again in the Foreshadow Magazine interview in September 2004, and at that time, the expected release date was the beginning of 2005. Kevin Doherty, the single band member of SleepResearch_Facility, described his inspiration behind the album in the Cold Spring Supplement interview in January 2007.
Track listing
(*) There is some uncertainty about the correct name of this track, since the name on the back of the CD box is "72ºS 49ºE", whereas the name inside the CD booklet is "72ºS 149ºE".Response
Steve Roach has described the album as "Outstanding dark ambient", [ [http://www.steveroach.com/store/store.php?item=387 Sleep Research Facility: Deep Frieze ] ] and the majority of reviews have been very positive. The album has been reviewed on many websites and blogs, including [http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/index.php?search=frieze&type=music Chain DLK] , [http://www.earlabs.org/text/review.asp?reviewID=535 EARLabs] , [http://www.filthforge.net/reviews/reviews-2007/review-srf-deepfrieze.htm Filth Forge] , [http://gothtronic.com/?page=23&reviews=3880 Gothtronic] , [http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20070930070631278 Heathen Harvest] , [http://invisibleoranges.com/2007/07/sleep-research-facility-deep-frieze.html Invisible Oranges] , [http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=935&Itemid=30 JudasKiss] , [http://cp05.ionhosting.com/~joelh/sleepresearchfacilityreviews.htm Lunar Hypnosis] , [http://www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/reviews_template.php?id=1299 Musique Machine] , [http://simon-a.livejournal.com/43172.html Shadowplay] , [http://www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php?id=24678_0_17_0_C Side-Line] , [http://www.sonicimmersion.org/review.php?letter=S&review=71361 Sonic Immersion] , [http://www.vancooten.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=134 Sound is Audible Time] , [http://www.vitalweekly.net/588.html Vital Weekly] and [http://whiteline1.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/sleep-research-facility-deep-frieze-cd/ WHITE_LINE] . Cold Spring has compiled [http://www.coldspring.co.uk/reviews/csr72cd.php a collection of reviews] of the album.Free audio
An 8-minute edit of "79ºS 83ºW" is available on the [http://www.myspace.com/sleepresearchfacility official SR_F page] on MySpace.
An [http://www.coldspring.co.uk/Samples/SRF_79S_83W.mp3 80-second sample] of "79ºS 83ºW" is available from the Cold Spring website.
Early mixes of [http://www.resonance-net.com/apa/tracks/deepfrieze.01.128kmp3.mp3 "79ºS 83ºW"] , [http://www.resonance-net.com/apa/tracks/deepfrieze.03.128kmp3.mp3 "82ºS 62ºE"] and [http://www.resonance-net.com/apa/tracks/deepfrieze.05.128kmp3.mp3 "80ºS 96ºE"] are available on the official website (even though the Audio Project Archive page which linked to them has now been deleted).
External links
* [http://www.resonance-net.com/deepfrieze.htm Info from official site]
* [http://www.coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr72cd.php Info from Cold Spring site]
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/942316 Discogs entry]
* [http://www.last.fm/music/Sleep+Research+Facility/Deep+Frieze Last.fm entry]
* [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sleep_research_facility/deep_frieze/ Rate Your Music entry]References
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