Hardscore - Surf, Wind And Desire (2000)

Posted By: JET 1

Date: April 14, 2024

Now here's a band that could separate irk from quirk if you tend to keep your sounds squarely traditional. Surf Punks meets Oingo Boingo meets Zappa, maybe? Commissioned (!) by Belgium's De Wert Brogge, the profoundly-titled Surf, Wind & Desire is a sequence of humorous vignettes focusing on various aspects of beach culture and marine life. Hardscore's music parallels the lyrical goofiness of principal composer and marimba player Frank Nuyts without sounding avant for avant's sake. The quasi-epic "The Creep From The Deep" is sonic performance art, a comical chronology concerning the biological and social evolution of one Chuck The Fish. "Kite Control" and "Cod" are titled bluntly to cloak their surprises from the casual listener. Speaking of Nuyts, he and saxophonist Frank Debruyne slow-roasted this feast; the text reads like prose yet nearly every song can be blocked out in abba, abab or aabb (the most obvious exception being "Burnin' Off Love), certain wordings resembling the handiwork of arch-hedonist Ty Webb, probably penned while getting toasted in front of his Casiotone.Synth aficionados' brows may furl at learning that Frank Nuyts and (main keyboardist) Koen Van Overberghe use only a pair of late '80s Korgs workstations the 01/W and M1 and a Roland U-220 module, the last of which is not known for any uncharacteristically cool sounds. There's no mistaking those 01/W strings, though. No other types of synths past or present were brought in, thus Hardscore will not be pegged for conformist tendencies anytime soon. And in a band with two principal composers, bassist Maarten Standarts and drummer Jan De Smet play their rears off and come off as the real heroes, inadvertently shucking their second fiddle posturing in the wake of Nuyts' and Debruyne's marimba & sax seasonings. For those who don't pay attention to that sort of business there's quite a bit to like here, like the lead vocals of the gal known simply as Mai, and the very intricate music taking place beneath some poignant text like Unhook your tiny pre-cupped bikini/Sip your martini/Savor your linguini with asparagus/On the beaches of Galapagos.

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 3. August 2010, 20:01

Hardscore / Surf, Wind & Desire

Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7243S Adapter: 0 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
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 : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:12.57 | 0 | 14456
2 | 3:12.57 | 3:23.55 | 14457 | 29736
3 | 6:36.37 | 7:19.20 | 29737 | 62681
4 | 13:55.57 | 5:52.15 | 62682 | 89096
5 | 19:47.72 | 14:22.58 | 89097 | 153804
6 | 34:10.55 | 10:50.25 | 153805 | 202579
7 | 45:01.05 | 5:26.27 | 202580 | 227056
8 | 50:27.32 | 4:34.68 | 227057 | 247674
9 | 55:02.25 | 5:53.02 | 247675 | 274151
10 | 60:55.27 | 4:57.33 | 274152 | 296459

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename C:\Documents and Settings\S\ \Torrent \Hardscore - Surf, Wind & Desire.wav

Peak level 99.5 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 074E4F9A
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database
Track 6 not present in database
Track 7 not present in database
Track 8 not present in database
Track 9 not present in database
Track 10 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

Tracklist :::
1. Prelude to surf, wind and desire (3:12)
2. Crab meets crab (3:24)
3. Kite control (7:19)
4. Gale force seven (5:52)
5. BSKRZ (14:23)
6. The creep from the deep (10:51)
7. Cod (5:26)
8. The diver and the shark (4:35)
9. Surf, no wind and desire (5:53)
10. Burnin' off love (4:57

Players :::
Maï - lead vocals
Frank Nuyts - programmings, Korg O1W, marimba, backing vocals
Frank Debruyne - Soprano & Tenor saxophone, backing vocals
Koen Van Overberghe - Korg M1, Roland U-220, backing vocals
Iris De Blaere - Yamaha Grantouch
Maarten Standaert - electric bass
Jan De Smet - drums

Download from icerbox.com