(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)
The Canadian trio Waiting For God (Daemon Cadman on vocals, Martin Myers on keyboards, Greg Price on drums) builds complex industrial ballets on foundations of sequencers, loops, and samples. Quarter Inch Think is the remastered and remixed version of their self-titled debut album.
The title track of Desipramine (Cargo, 1997), an instrumental, advances like a panzer driven by alien zombies, the quintessence of gothic and futuristic stereotypes. Inefficient Machine follows the same pattern, adding only the extraterrestrial whispers of the singer. Having abandoned the aggressive posturing of their first EP, the focus now lies in mixing and sampling. Everything is carefully deconstructed before being brutally reassembled. The synthetic polyrhythms that pervade all the songs are the most evident result of this process. The melodies and electronic hues lean toward British dark-punk.
(Original English text by Piero Scaruffi)
Greg Price also has a techno/house project, Phaedra.
Hemisphere (Quantum Loop, 1998) is Greg Price and Eric Chambers.
This mini-album (that includes come older Waiting For God tracks)
is a programmatic manifesto of their hard and frequently dissonant house sound.
From the hypnotic, exotic Scetch to the tribal, pounding Spaces,
from the David Byrne-esque ethno-funk of Shape Of Things
to the robotic drum'n'bass of Go Direct, the duo shows plenty of
imagination but limited focus.
Under the monicker Cooldown, on the EP Ether (Map, 1999),
Price plays trip-hop with a female vocalist (Yin).
