Drift "Exile" CD [CH-395]

Remastered reissue alongside the other Drift cassettes originally on Slaughter Productions. Mastered by Grant Richardson. A5 Digipak. Co-released with Total Black.

"Drift was a relatively short-lived project created by
Gabriele Giuliani, better known through his notorious nom de
plume Dead Body Love. Within the course of only a few short years,
Drift released a dozen sought after releases on such legendary
imprints as Slaughter, Old Europa Cafe, SSSM, Harmonie, and his
own Less Than Zero, before fading behind the curtains.

Exile was not only the debut release by Drift, but also
the beginning to a trilogy of cassettes released on Slaughter
Productions. It is on these three albums one will experience
Dark Ambient in its undistilled and raw form, dense and haunted.
The furthest point from sound design or the dreaded "Cinematic
Ambient" tag. This IS Ambient Industrial Noise.

The inspiration of Mick Harris's project Lull is immediate
on this trilogy, in particular the "Cold Summer" and "Journey
Through Underworlds" albums. However Gabriele pushes things even
further. The textures more bombastic, the bass frequencies more
suffocating, the reverbs trail longer. All sense of subtlety and
refinement wiped away. Only the cold remains.

Exile in particular takes on a deep cavernous approach
in sound, uninhabited, as if stillness had a voice and could be
amplified. Despite the sense of inertia, the compositions are
in constant motion and with focus. Only industrial moments of
a track like "Dawn" provides a break to what is an otherwise
desolate recording.

Although the Drift project would eventually incorporate
synth as well as occasional beats and melodic elements on future
releases. It is this trilogy that is the most fascinating. The
sources are difficult to pinpoint. Were they field recordings?
Film samples? Transmissions from the underworld? Whatever the
origins, Exile serves as the perfect foreshadowing of what was to
come on the follow-up releases The Beyond and Earthquake."

- Jim Mroz (Lussuria)