Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding

Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding
Studio album by Venetian Snares
Released	June 14, 2004
Recorded	2003
Genre	Breakcore, glitch, intelligent dance
Length	63:01
Label	Planet Mu
Producer	Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares chronology
Horse and Goat (2004) Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding (2004) Infolepsy EP (2004)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(7.9/10) [2]

Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding is an album by electronic music artist Venetian Snares released in June 2004.

Venetian Snares claims the album originally had a 12.6 surround sound mix:

“	It's actually 12.6,,, [sic] 6 around the ceiling, 6 halfway between the ceiling and the floor, then 6 subs on the floor. So you are completely surrounded and sound can be placed virtually anywhere in the field. Say you have something start in the very top left then crash behind you to your right and explode into everything like standing inside a mushroom cloud. You get the picture. Was done at Naut Humon's Recombinant Media Labs studio in SF. Richard Devine, Otto Von Schirach and a bunch of others have also done music on the system. We all did a show around this time last year at the Paradiso in Amsterdam performing some of this 12.6 surround madness.	”
	— Venetian Snares[3]

This album sees Venetian Snares experiment with time signatures beyond his naturally unorthodox meter of 7/4: "Vida" is in 5/4 time; "Huge Chrome Peach", "Ion Divvy", and "Bent Annick" are in 11/4 time; "Li₂CO₃" is in 13/4 time; "Destroy Glass Castles" is in 10/4 time; "Nineteen 1319" alternates, as its name suggests, between 19/4 and 13/4 time. "Chlorophyll" has a compound time signature which effectively amounts to 17/4. Several songs feature recognizable samples from a Speak & Spell and Speak & Math.

Track listing

1. "Huge Chrome Peach" – 4:27
2. "Bonivital" – 3:49
3. "Cadmium Lung Jacket" – 3:56
4. "Vida" – 4:16
5. "Coke Ajax" – 5:14
6. "Li₂CO₃" – 4:02
7. "Ion Divvy" – 4:52
8. "Keek" – 4:12
9. "Nineteen 1319" – 4:07
10. "Destroy Glass Castles" – 7:02
11. "Chlorophyll" – 2:31
12. "Bent Annick" – 4:58
13. "Aaron" – 3:59
14. "Bezcitny" – 5:29

References

1. Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding at AllMusic
2. "Venetian Snares: Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding / Horse and Goat | Album Reviews". Pitchfork. 2004-08-15. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
3. Venetian Snares messageboard; Venetian Snares replying to a topic titled "Snares 12.1??" (requires membership to view).

External links

• Official release page