Choice Is Yours Vol. 69: That Total Age vs. Frequencies
Nitzer Ebb – That Total Age (1987)
Vs.
LFO – Frequencies (1991)
The Game is simple… if only one could exist which would it be? What’s more important… personal relevance, cultural significance, or simply being the better album all other things aside? Choice is yours…
- My Pal the Crook
March 16th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Frequencies……legendary.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
I’m largely unfamiliar with LFO, kind of checking it out now. But That Total Age had such a huge impact on my childhood and the overall taste in music that I would later develop. I’m going to have to go with Nitzer Ebb on this one.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
these are two pivotal albums for two different yet not so far off scenes. One could appreciate both equally making this a tough one. For myself LFO is more influential as it embodies the spirit of 90s rave and uk hardcore in the most epic of ways. Along side with prodigy’s experience, altern8′s full on mask hysteria make up what people will and have been recalling when thinking of that era and genre.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Is that the LFO album with “Summer Girls” on it?
March 16th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
That Total Age wins because my former boyfriend would play nothing but Nitzer Ebb, what a creepy fuck.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Nothing can beat “Join in the Chant.” I had a friend who worked in a factory making cupboard doors and he played that song once. As can be imagined, he wasn’t allowed to play that cd again. “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE, WHOO!”
March 17th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
frequencies… i LOVE both of theese albums, and there is a white label of lfo remixing join in the chant that my ex stole from me. anyway LFO did a lot more for the electronic listening music scene, acid house etc. than THAT TOTAL AGE did for industrial. the industrial scene was up am running by this time, where FREQUENCIES was only WARP5? real early in their catalog. my point being that music, and other groups feed off each other, make each other better y’know. and the idm scene just kept growing and growing. let’s face it there are a lot more bedroom studios, with one kid making beats on his 303 & 505, then there are BANDS sitting around trying to write ‘songs’ as it were, an to have a live show. theese kids are doing amazing things wth software, and altering synthesizers etc. sooooooo anyway. LFO – FREQUENCIES is nothing short than the birth of IDM, and the whole WARP records scene. starting in the early 90′s all electronics exploded in the U.K. in manchester, and sheffield. although. that total age is fuckin’ flawless…
cNTSC.