Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip (1990)

Posted By: Designol
Date: Nov. 29, 2013

Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 378 Mb (incl 5%) | Mp3 (CBR320/Stereo) ~ 128 Mb (incl 5%) | Scans included
Genre: Electronic, EBM, Industrial | Label: Wax Trax!/TVT | # TVT 7146 | Time: 00:52:06

Front Line Assembly displayed an efficiency befitting of their music's machine-like nature when co-founder Michael Balch stepped aside in 1990 and part-time member Rhys Fulber seamlessly took his place beside Bill Leeb beginning with 1990's Caustic Grip album. Fulber's timing was also propitious in the sense that the previous year's Gashed Senses & Crossfire had exposed FLA to a larger audience and set the stage for their newly minted production team to operate its magic with utmost precision and multi-layered attention to detail on the eminent follow-up. The eye-opening results can be sampled in the infernal dance grooves and hyperactive beats energizing tracks like "Resist," "Overkill," and "Force Fed" (all of them sounding like Depeche Mode's worst nightmare), and yet their processed whispers and rasps weren't nearly as frightening as Leeb's serial killer croak on "Victim." On the other hand, he actually came close to singing for the first time on the abnormally sedate "Threshold," and the ratio of synthesized melodies per beat was shifted ever so slightly for the benefit of singles "Provision" and "Iceolate" – the latter even receiving the benefit of a music video and modest MTV rotations to support it. Above all else, perhaps, Caustic Grip helped Front Line Assembly make a definitive break from Leeb's previous legendary group, Skinny Puppy, by solidifying their standing as one of the most essential industrial groups of the '90s.

Review by Eduardo Rivadavia, Allmusic.com
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Tracklist:

01. Resist (05:27)
02. Victim (05:07)
03. Overkill (05:25)
04. Forge (04:22)
05. Provision (06:11)
06. Force Fed (04:42)
07. Iceolate (05:17)
08. Threshold (05:13)
09. Mental Distortion (06:52)
10. The Chair (03:30)

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 2 from 29. April 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 19. August 2011, 7:59

Front Line Assembly / Caustic Grip

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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo


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AccurateRip summary

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All tracks accurately ripped

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foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-11-29 18:55:27

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Analyzed: Front Line Assembly / Caustic Grip
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR10 0.00 dB -11.55 dB 5:26 01-Resist
DR9 -0.71 dB -11.36 dB 5:07 02-Victim
DR10 -0.72 dB -12.21 dB 5:25 03-Overkill
DR10 -0.93 dB -12.50 dB 4:22 04-Forge
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DR10 -0.53 dB -12.15 dB 4:43 06-Force Fed
DR10 -0.85 dB -12.63 dB 5:16 07-Iceolate
DR10 -1.07 dB -13.45 dB 5:14 08-Threshold
DR10 -0.86 dB -12.30 dB 6:52 09-Mental Distortion
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Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 959 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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