Encephalon’s debut record gets the full commentary treatment on this week’s episode of the podcast! We’ve been wanting to pick a more recent record for our commentary tracks, and we couldn’t think of a better choice than 2011’s “The Transhuman Condition” was our favourite record of ID:UD’s inaugural year, and we’ve got plenty to say about the Ottawa trio’s head-trip of an electro-industrial tour de force. If this is your first encounter with the record, you’re in for a treat. If you’ve already heard it, then you know what we’re on about. You can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher, download directly, or stream from the widget down below!
We Have a Technical 101: The Transhuman Musicians
Holy crap! This was totally unexpected, and an amazing choice for a commentary. I bought this album on a whim, going in completely blind. I kind of expected a decent but not great album and was completely blown away on first listen. This commentary made my day!
Thank you! Brilliant discussion of a brilliant, now-classic electro industrial album.
Lovely commentary. I especially enjoyed your comments your comments towards the end about how “invigorating” this album was/is towards industrial music. If anyone were to ask me why it’s exciting to be an industrial fan in 2016, I would say: 1) Youth Code, 2) Encephalon, 3) 3TEETH, and 4) Dead When I Found Her. Lots of fantastic bands new bands and plenty of old bands still bringing the fire but those four stand out to me as unparalleled proof of continuing innovation, quality, and growth in the industrial scene.
On the topic on The Transhuman Condition being a grower, it was a surprisingly drawn out process for me to get into the record. I first found it about a year ago while browsing your top records of 2011, and if it hadn’t been #1 (and had such an intriguing title at a time when I first becoming truly enamored with transhumanism) I doubt I would have given it too many listens. It took weeks of adding songs one at a time to my spotify collection and thinking “Oh, this trcaks’s pretty good” before it started to click exactly how good an album it was. I don’t think there was any moment of epiphany, just a drawn out transition from “meh” to “holy FUCK.” And now it’s probably my favorite record of the last FIFTEEN years (definitely top 5 for that period if not #1). And I have you guys to thank for that, so, thanks!