Fragmentation

by Orphx

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1.	Word and Symbol 03:22	buy track
2.	Layers of Dura 04:19	buy track
3.	Ekstasis 06:10	buy track
4.	Auto Erotic 04:11	buy track
5.	Sepsis 06:14	buy track
6.	Tanha 08:14	buy track
7.	Pathogenesis 06:40	buy track
8.	Words Once Spoken 09:22	buy track
9.	Electroencephalographic Measurements 04:04	buy track
10.	Samsara 04:29	buy track
11.	Cellular Resonance 08:48	buy track
12.	Within 07:05	buy track
13.	Prodome 02:14	buy track
14.	Onset 06:20	buy track
15.	Cathexis 04:47	buy track
16.	Geography 03:32	buy track
17.	Final Exit 04:47	buy track
18.	Terminal Posture 04:08	buy track
19.	Oblivion 06:34	buy track
20.	Corridor (live) 03:33	buy track
21.	Summoning (live) 03:00	buy track
22.	Layers of Dura (live) 05:06	buy track
23.	Within / Auto Erotic (live) 05:07	buy track
24.	Samsara (live) 03:15	buy track
25.	Tape Decay (live) 03:46	buy track
26.	Cellular Resonance (live) 03:44	buy track
27.	Tanha (live) 08:36	buy track

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Fragmentation was the third full-length album from Orphx, originally released in 1996 on the legendary Malignant Records label. Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey, and Aron West had founded the project three years earlier, creating pitch black noisescapes inspired by early industrial music and the extreme fringes of metal. By 1996, West had departed to focus on his absurdist noise project Tropism, while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction. Cassette releases on their own Xcreteria imprint (reissued by Hospital Productions and Mannequin Records in 2017) quickly attracted the attention of Malignant Records, who offered to release the next album.

Fragmentation was made using the same basic tools as the early cassettes: contact microphones, scrap metal, effects pedals, feedback circuits, a drum machine, a couple of synths, and location recordings and found sounds manipulated by Sealey on reel to reel machines and 8-bit sampler. While early Orphx recordings were primarily improvised direct to tape, this album places much greater emphasis on carefully constructed layers of sound, shaping their improvisational energy into powerful compositions that combine death industrial atmospheres and brutal power electronics with relentless, hypnotic percussion. Themes of illness, infection, and psychopathology dominate the album but are intertwined with references to transcendence, suggesting a desperate search for salvation in the midst of social / psychological disintegration.

The Fragmentation reissue on Hospital Productions includes the original album, now remastered by Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), and over an hour of additional rarities and previously unreleased recordings. This includes rare compilation tracks, selections from the Obsession and Progress cassette (BloodLust!, 1996), the Final Moments cassette (Third Force / Isolation, 1997), and live recordings from 1995 and 1996.

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released October 2, 2020

Tracks 1 to 12 recorded by Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey throughout 1996. Additional sound design by Aron West on Track 9. Tracks 13 to 19 by Rich Oddie, 1996-1997, with additional sound design by Christina Sealey on tracks 17 and 18. All live tracks performed by Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey. Track 20 recorded live March 11, 1995, at the Music Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Tracks 21 to 26 recorded live on July 9, 1995, at The Rivoli in Toronto, Canada. Track 27 recorded live on November 20, 1996 at the X-Club in Hamilton, Canada.

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Orphx Toronto, Ontario

Orphx have been creating their unique fusion of rhythm and noise for three decades, combining elements of techno with the experimental techniques and critical spirit of industrial music. This site contains recordings from Orphx and all related artists: Ontario Hospital, Oureboros, Eschaton, Rich Oddie, and Christina Sealey. ... more

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