COLLIDE: Chasing The Ghost

Collide

Chasing The Ghost

© 2000 Noiseplus Music (808458100026)

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an exotic hybrid of darkwave, cyber-dance, and electronic, attention fans of Massive Attack, Curve, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, and Delirium.

tracks

1 Transfer
2 Wings of Steel
3 Razor Sharp
4 Dreamsleep
5 White Rabbit
6 Frozen
7 Halo
8 Monochrome
9 Ocean
10 Like You Want to Believe

notes

Collide performs an exotic hybrid of Darkwave, Cyber-Dance, and Electronic, with crossover appeal which will appeal to fans of Massive Attack, Curve, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, and Delirium.

After their first highly acclaimed CD, "Beneath the Skin", and follow- up remix album, "Distort", Noiseplus Music is proud to present the long anticipated, "chasing the ghost".

As the title suggests, "chasing the ghost" is haunting and captivating, with an essence that cuts to the core.

Its hypnotic lull of orchestrated sounds and heartfelt emotion reveal a journey reaching deep into the psyche that will grab you and not let go.

Recognized as innovators in sound, Collide prefer to cut their own path.

This album, although decidedly different from their previous CDs, once again treads on new ground, combining new elements into a powerful whole.

reviews

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  • Amazing
    author: Lisa Coles

    I first discovered Collide on myspace and decided I had to have the album. Karin's vocals demand attention from the first note to the last one... and the music is just amazing. I'd recommend this cd to anyone :)

  • Gobs of fun!
    author: Stephen R. Cann

    Thank goodness some talented people are doing new things that are creative, fun, adventurous and sexy!

  • Excellent production and inventive
    author: DJ Puppeteer

    Excellent production and inventive creativity make this one of the best releases I own. A must have for fans of electro industrial and darkwave music.

  • Simply Amazing
    author: Melody Riddle

    From the first 5 seconds to the last moments of sound, the cd was simply amazing. All the tracks were beautiful.

  • Collide does a great job on this cd.
    author: www.GreatIndieMusic.com

    Cd is very well done. Keep up the good work!

  • An excellent CD. Collide sells you without trying too hard by presenting a well
    author: Scott Charlton

    Chasing the Ghost is an excellent peice of work. Very reminiscent of Curve, yet not them, and it projects a feel all its own. Evocative lyrics and a great mix of sounds and blends. I like the cover of White Rabbit too. Good mood music for writing, dancing, or a memorable late night encounter. I normally do not listen to this type of music, but Collide sold me right off,and I'll be looking into them some more. I would pay to see them. Everyone I've played it for likes it, and these folks have quite varied musical tastes, which says something.

  • A place to go at night..
    author: Adam

    Chasing the Ghost is a collection of sounds that transform the world around you. Languid and dark, it slips you into its own realm anywhere you go. Though I found it easy to tune out of a couple of the songs, on the most part, this is music fit for a long walk in the late hours.

  • Sexy, Creepy, Myesterious, Fun
    author: Alan

    Sexy, creepy, mysterious, and fun. These are elements of the world Collide live in and they are great at taking you there. What Evanescence sings about as if they visit this other dimension often, Collide sings about it as if they are residents and know the terrain well. While there are several artists in this style, Collide on this cd bring a certain spirit to it that sets this way apart. It is like a knowing smile and wink from that sexy Goth girl of promises she knows she can deliver.

  • Absolutely fabulous
    author: TSDF

    One of my all time favorite bands in this genre, doesn't disappoint with a single song on this album. Well crafted songs, and musicianship coupled with stellar engineering. This is a band to keep your eyes on.

  • Great CD!
    author: Larzy926

    This cd is magnificent! Reminiscent of Sneaker Pimps and Portishead with elements of NIN thrown in. Dark and dancy all at the same time. Can't wait to hear more from them.

  • You did a great job of covering White Rabbit
    author: CoppercaT

    I love the cover you did of white rabbit. but im just curious... Did you get permission to do this song?

  • author: CD Baby

    an exotic hybrid of darkwave, cyber-dance, and electronic, attention fans of Massive Attack, Curve, Dead Can Dance, Portishead, and Delirium.

  • At home, the car, or in the club.....
    author: Robert and Andrea

    We both like cutting edge music, dance and house are some of our favorite. With the White Rabbit song this cd is just that much more one of our favorites that we tell everyone we dance with.

  • Brilliant
    author: Mandy

    This CD is awesome. In a drive to recapture the sounds of Cranes and Dead Can Dance, I happened upon this CD on the CD Baby site, and I'm glad I did. How many other discs leave you wanting to rush out and buy all other CD's and merchandise from the artist, just because? Brilliant.

  • LOVE THE SOUND!!
    author: ASH

    GREAT TRACKS, LIKED THEM ALL....TRIPPY MUSIC!!

  • Scary,Hip and to Bad No One Is Like This Band With Beat!!
    author: Karl Rhodes Born III

    I like the songs on this CD or what I heard so far. I will have to order the album when I get my debit card through the mail. A friend of mine recorded some music on a blank tape with a mixture of songs and remixes know one knew who they where to buy the album sounded like this and Enigmas early stuff. Long story short I am an artist you know for comix and stuff; my life support got stolen all my copys and I have gotten writers block since. This might set my imagination on course again, its that GREAT!!!

  • Marcus Pan is the editor of Legends Magazine.
    author: Marcus Pan, Legends Magazine

    REVIEW: Collide - "Chasing the Ghost" Since 1997, many trip-hop and goth-electro fans have waited on pins and needles for the follow-up release of duo Collide. The release of the remix album Distort and, a year previous, 1996's Beneath the Skin and the single Son of a Preacher Man, complete with a surrealistic masterpiece of a video that depicts a gang of cowboys fighting it out with a gang of people dressed in various animal costumes; this has set duo Statik and Karin up as greats within the trip-hop electro field of sound fusion. The dawn of the millennium brings us now Chasing the Ghost. The album ends a long wait for Collide fans, and delivers tenfold on the promises that the moody duo has set for themselves with previous releases. Moody, rhythmic and infused with a maturity that shows how the two have grown together on a personal, professional and musical level, Chasing the Ghost is, in short, a fucking masterpiece. Not only can you hear the maturity of their music, you can see it in the release of Chasing the Ghost on their own self-made label, Noiseplus Music. Available at CDBaby, Amazon.com, and direct from Noiseplus of course, this is a must-have for any lover of previous Collide releases. It is a further step in the duo's analogy and no collection of trip-hop or similar music is complete without it. Statik's control of the instrumentals have reached a new high, with more control and less of a noisy stance. The rhythms are smoother, more subtle, even cerebral at times and with the exception of some tracks that push a high-brow drumbeat they have a deeper arrangement. Karin continues to laud us with sultriness and erotica, crooning with a combined sound of malice, finesse and lust. "This album was torture to make," says Karin about Chasing the Ghost, the perfectionism of the duo manipulating each track to higher levels of form. Some favorites include the slow, moody and sultry Razor Sharp, with vocal effects that give Karin a devlish/succubus sound, dragging "s's" and consonant sounds as they chant through the membranes of your soul. Statik's groove is slow, funk-driven and sexy, pulsing bass that are wrapped with melodic, sharp-intoned keyboard licks. Jumping to track 5, here Collide cover Grace Slick with the 1966 White Rabbit. The rhythm is lifted up and injected with more fervor, speeding along with guitar chords that are mechanized yet retain humanism when surrounded by Karin's deep vocals. One thing you will notice on Chasing the Ghost is that she seems to supply less of the diva-esque vocal qualities and more a deep-chanting quality, with even soprano notes spoken with assured intonations and less of a belting wail. The latter computer-bass rhythms and guitar-style riffs performed by Statik further on surrounding Karin's "ooo yeah" closing vocals are excellently balanced without a highlight, providing a blend of instruments that play along with each other rather than one against another. Also here is Halo, a true trip-hop bass-sliding style. The mixture of bass-level sounds throughout Halo allow Karin to shine with her singing, as it allows her to appear just above the bass lines with higher-octave sounds, though you'll find her voice still remains within an alto range for most of the song. Chorus areas are intoned with a keyboard chorale style that, while stepping up to the higher octaves, are low-cut enough to still allow Karin's vocals to retain control of the track. Overall, Chasing the Ghost delivers on a promise made about three years ago when the last Collide release hit the streets. Back in June of 2000 Rat B. reviewed the previous works of Collide and closed by saying, "There are plenty of Front 242s, Leaether Strips, and FLAs in the world, but only one Collide." And indeed, Karin and Statik remain true to their sole vision - Chasing the Ghost, and Collide in general, is not a band where you can easily pin their influences on the jacket sleeve. Trip-hop, electronica, EBM, euro-industrial (a la Kraftwerk and not Ministry) - it contains facets of all of these, while still being a sound of their own. Contact Information: Post: Collide, P.O. Box 565, North Hollywood, CA, 91603 Phone: (818) 506-1868 Fax: (818) 506-5127 E-Mail: xCollide@aol.com Web: http://www.collide.net

  • Sex, Sweat, and Razor Blades
    author: Jett Black / Nocturnal Movements

    Let's be honest here: kaRIN is drop dead gorgeous with the most beautiful vocals to match! And Statik is wizardry incarnate delivered into electro-human form. Add sweat and mix with razor blades. Jett Black @ Nocturnal Movements & Starvox.net mailto:Jett@starvox.net

  • S E X That's what this cd is all about.
    author: Keith, The Psionic Imperator @ Starvox.net

    Sex. That's what this cd is all about. Put it on before you hop in the hay, or flannel, or whatever it is you use to do the deed in, and you'll see what I mean. Collide have been around for awhile, but I'm a newbie to them really...so I can't really say if this is a departure of sound for them or not. I think it is, if the press-sheet is to be believed. Although the 'sex' part was probably always there, thanks to kaRIN's vocal delivery. She just sounds so...sultry. This time around it seems as though the music caught up. Listening to 'Chasing The Ghost' brings visions of kaRIN encased in a drool-tastic latex/leather ensemble, draped over a piano in a smokey lounge sometime in the 40's. Great atmosphere to this release. Statik is no slouch either, the music on this album is top-notch, covering alot of ground. Hints of middle-eastern material here and there, subtlety abounds... I have a soft-spot in my heart for Darkwave. It appeals to both my inner Goth and my inner Rivethead. Collide have crafted an exceptional work with 'Chasing The Ghost', further establishing themselves as part of the upper elite in the Darkwave genre. Lookin' for music to drink wine to late at night, but tired of the same old Goth classics? Go out and grab yourself a copy of this release. Bask in it's voluptuous, seductive charms... Anguish never sounded so kinky. Psionic Imperator - Starvox.net - mailto:keith@starvox.net Music review by Psionic Imperator @ Starvox.net http://www.starvox.net/cdr/collide.htm

  • Music review of Chasing the Ghost by Michael Ventarola at Starvox.net
    author: Michael Ventarola - Starvox.net

    It seemed as if everywhere one looked, there was information about a band named Collide slapped onto something. Everything from packages to all sorts of public billboards and phone booths blatantly screamed the name from its perch only to be followed by a number of magazine ads. This made me start to wonder about this group as well as their street team who are getting the word out. Amazingly enough, all the posted stickers are coming from loyal fans. Upon listening to "Chasing The Ghost," it is impossible not to be fully absorbed into their musical world in a large way, and one can fully understand what all the fuss is about in the first place. Collide is a cross between Rhea’s Obsession, Switchblade Symphony, My Scarlet Life and a libidinous dark angel. This particular CD also received additional assistance from Monica Richards and William Faith from Faith and The Muse. There is also a dark remake of the Grace Slick song "White Rabbit" created for the new millennium sound, without detracting from the beauty of the original. The music is a steady amalgamation of trip hop, electronica, goth, ambient and rock, all rolled together in an intriguing hybrid and expertly sequenced for obtaining maximum listener enjoyment and satisfaction. Some vocal high tech tweaking similar to the Cher hit "Believe" is also included on the track "Razor Sharp," which rounds out the sound and is going to cause a number of tongues to wag in musical circles for quite some time. Beyond the fact that the album is well made and purely brilliant, is the fact that it boldly takes dark music to a sensuous level. It is romantically enigmatic and erotic while still giving homage to the surrealistic depth of darkness in all its guises. Basically you can sit back and listen, dance to it or you can have an all night Tantra session with that special someone with this as background music. The eroticism of the music and vocals leaps off the CD in an almost subliminal fashion, drawing you in deeper and further with each passing song. kaRin’s vocals are at times like sex-kitten whispers woven between anticipatory longing and sieved through a futuristic chasm with understated crooning. This reviewer can’t recall a dark music album being this seductive in quite some time. It can safely be said that based on the strength of this CD, I fell in love with this dazzling work and am looking forward to obtaining some of their earlier music as well. Band Lineup: kaRin: Vocals, lyrics Statik: Noise Additional Musicians: William Faith: guitar- White Rabbit, Dreamsleep Tim Pierce: guitar- Transfer, Razor Sharp, Dreamsleep Chris Candelaria: guitar- Dream Sleep Kevin Kipnis: guitar- Like You Want To Believe Fritz Heede: Sitar- Halo Additional Vocals: Monica Richards: Monochrome Michael Ventarola / Starvox.net mailto:mike@starvox.net Music review of Chasing the Ghost by Michael Ventarola at Starvox.net -- http://www.starvox.net/cdr/collide.htm

  • Music review of Chasing the Ghost by Wolf at Starvox.net
    author: Wolf - Starvox.net

    As a music-hungry teenager I ordered Collide's debut, Beneath the Skin, on the basis of one review, a good 4 years ago. This review was favorable, but the cd was also considered a disc of hit-and-miss. I couldn't disagree more on the hit-and-miss part once I heard it and felt quite grateful for whichever part of that review had convinced me that this was straight up my alley. To date Beneath the Skin remains one of my all-time favorite albums and although band members kaRIN (vocals & lyrics) and Statik (music) have supplied us with singles, a remix cd (Distort), numerous compilation appearances and several excellent remixes over the past few years, I couldn't wait to finally hear their sophomore effort. Wrapped in a gorgeous cover courtesty of Digital Apocalypse's Chad Michael Ward, Chasing the Ghost presents itself with nine new songs and one cover version ("White Rabbit"). The first thing that occurred to me was that the often harsh and explosive sound of their debut has partially made way for a more trip-hop feel. The songs are still powerful, but thanks to dens layering it creeps up at you, instead of lashing out full-force. And what definitely hasn't changed is the lush, sensual mood and its paradoxal feeling of a beauty submerging the listener so seductively that it could please, yet just as easily kill. All of this is still the result of kaRIN and Statik's symbiotic chemistry; voices become instruments, sounds emerge like whispers, words fall seamlessly into place and the end-result is once again astonishing. "Transfer" sounds the closest to something off of Beneath the Skin, with uplifting guitars and lovely vocals, while "Wings of Steel" turns towards the trip-hop feel that dominates most of this disc. Statik creates a wonderfully eerie soundscape on this track and its ethnic feel is present on several other songs as well, a very welcome addition to the scope of Collide's sound. The lyrics are poetic and extremely well-placed, with kaRIN's whispers sounding as creepy as they are beautiful during strategic breakdowns. One of the album's best songs, in my opinion. The percussion and loungy feel of "Razor Sharp" are also very trip-hop, but during the chorus the song gains a lot more substance and transforms into genuine Collide material. While I'm not too fond of the "Cher" vocoder effect, the song is still very good. The same effect, however, is applied much better in the mesmerizing "Frozen" and its use in "Halo" deserves mentioning as well. It's unfortunate that it has become so over-used, because Collide show that when utilized sparsely it can be very effective. (Or use it like Yendri in their lovely "Inside the Machine", where the human nature of the vocals has almost entirely been discarded.) Faith and the Muse play a significant guest role on this cd, with William Faith's guitar work gracing the delicious mayhem of "Dreamsleep", as well as Collide's cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". Grace Slick's psychedelic 60's anthem finds itself revamped with style and this cover shows that a gap of over 30 years of music history can definitely be bridged. Monica Richards shares vocals with kaRIN on the high-speed chaos of "Monochrome", my second favorite track on this disc. "Ocean" sounds like the ultimate cyper-age lovesong, with a charming chorus and more of kaRIN's alluring vocals, which always tend to drift on through your mind long after the cd has ended. The cd comes to a subtle end with "Like you Want to Believe", which makes me want to believe that the next album will follow sooner than this one did. ;) The production of this cd is simply amazing and as with their debut there are new sounds and whispers to be discovered each time the disc is being played. There will only be one Beneath the Skin, but Collide can only be applauded for avoiding the "debut part 2" syndrome and continuing to push their sonic explorations. Chasing the Ghost is a perfect package of poetic lyrics, enchanting vocals and unique compositions with a refreshing mind of their own. There's no stopping it now, the band that was once the best-kept secret of the goth/industrial genre and its many sub-genres is convincingly working on making sure that mentioning the name Collide will never be met with question marks again. Band members: kaRIN - vocals, words Statik - music Additional info: Official band site: http://www.collide.net Mailing list: list@collide.net Faith and the Muse: http://www.mercyground.com Digital Apocalypse: http://www.digitalapocalypse.com Wolf / Starvox.net staff writer mailto:wolf@starvox.net Music review of Chasing the Ghost by Wolf at Starvox.net http://www.starvox.net/cdr/collide.htm

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