Exorcise the Demons explained

Exorcise the Demons
Type:Studio album
Artist:Source Direct
Cover:Exorcise_the_Demons.JPG
Released:March 1999
Recorded:1998–99
Genre:Drum and bass
Length:73:56
Label:Astralwerks
Virgin Records[1]
Prev Title:Controlled Developments
Prev Year:1997

Exorcise the Demons is a studio album by drum and bass artists Source Direct, released in 1999.[2] [3] The album contains 9 tracks, three of which, "Concealed Identity", "Mind Weaver", and "Technical Warfare", are previously released singles. "Call & Response" and "Capital D" are available on the duo's previous compilation album, Controlled Developments (1997).

"Call & Response" appears in the 1998 film Blade, in which the track is being listened to, on headphones, by the villain, Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), whilst he searches a library's archives; the song did not appear on the film's soundtrack.[4]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau praised the "beats developed in perceptible patterns, prudently minimalist middle registers, fun vrooms and slams as musical content", and called it "light instrumental music at its diverting best".

Fact ranked it #96 on its list of the 100 best albums of the 1990s, writing that it's "a thrilling document of smacked-out, misanthropic jungle for stalkers, serial killers and ne’er-do-wells".[5]

Track listing

  1. "Call & Response" – 7:09
  2. "Mind Weaver" – 8:45
  3. "Haunted" – 6:45
  4. "Technical Warfare" – 8:42
  5. "Love & Hate" – 9:22
  6. "Capital D" – 7:36
  7. "Dubstar" – 7:21
  8. "Wanton Conduct" – 8:43
  9. "Concealed Identity" – 9:33

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | Chasing Perfectionism: An Interview With Source Direct. The Quietus.
  2. Web site: Astralwerks' Source Direct Tackles Dark 'Demons'. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. Inc. January 23, 1999. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Exorcise the Demons. Hobey. Echlin. Detroit Metro Times.
  4. Web site: 2019-03-28. Lost & Found: Source Direct's paranoid d'n'b thriller Controlled Developments (1997). 26 August 2012.
  5. Web site: The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s. September 3, 2012.