finetune artist: Third Eye Foundation

With song titles like "An Even Harder Shade Of Dark", "I'm Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired", "I've Seen The Light And It Is Dark" and "What To Do But Cry?", Bristol, Avon, England-based, music concrete experimentalists the Third Eye Foundation attempt to articulate an unspecified dread. "It's difficult to sum up in words," Matt Elliott (b. 10 March 1974, Bath, Avon, England) has said about the meaning of his recordings, "That's why I make the music I do." Despite Elliott's claim to be happiest on his own, the Third Eye Foundation's early releases notably included noise/sample contributions from Foehn's Debbie Parsons. Dark, confused and sleeved with an image of a dead fox, The 1996 long-player Semtex was one of the 90s most astonishing debuts. On tracks like "Sleep", queasy, guitar-generated white noise was cut-through with edgy, incendiary drum 'n' bass breakbeats. More than one critique of the album suggested that the project's experiments with noise/breakbeats had pre-empted My Bloody Valentine's probable new direction.

Listen to Third Eye Foundation at Finetune.

(2000) Little Lost Soul
(1998) You Guys Kill Me

A Galaxy of Scars
I've Lost That Loving Feline
Lions Writing the Bible
Are You Still A Cliche?
Goddamit You've Got To Be Kind