{"id":737,"date":"2009-12-11T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:39:57","slug":"medusa-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Medusa Cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 2px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/MedusaCyclone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" \/><em>Mr. Devil<\/em> CD<br \/>\nThird Gear, 1998<\/p>\n<p>Have a taste for dark, atmospheric, spaced-out trance rock? Then you need to aquaint yourself with the out-of-this-world tunes of Detroit&#8217;s <strong>Keir McDonald<\/strong>, aka Medusa Cylone. This relatively unheard classic from the late &#8217;90s is essential listening, with a slight krautrock influence, warm analog electronics, and layers of ethereal effects-laden guitar. And where many similar-minded groups tend to get a bit monotonous from setting up a nice repetitive groove, <em>Mr. Devil<\/em> never gets boring as its songs are masterfully constructed to expand and contract and pull the listener in with an unending palette of pulsating exotic guitar, heavily-processed samples, and other sinister aural oddities. If your iPod is full of tracks from <strong>Loop, Hawkwind, Spacemen 3, F\/i<\/strong>, Syd Barrett-era <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>, or even the sample-happy urban sonic decay of <strong>Illusion of Safety<\/strong> or tense clang of <strong>Sonic Youth&#8217;s<\/strong> quieter moments, chances are this album will be of interest to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/MedusaCyclone-TheSmithCan.mp3\">Medusa Cyclone &#8211; &#8220;The Smith Can&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/MedusaCyclone-InvisibleWorld.mp3\">Medusa Cyclone &#8211; &#8220;Invisible World&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/medusacyclone\">Medusa Cyclone on MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Devil CD Third Gear, 1998 Have a taste for dark, atmospheric, spaced-out trance rock? Then you need to aquaint yourself with the out-of-this-world tunes of Detroit&#8217;s Keir McDonald, aka Medusa Cylone. This relatively unheard classic from the late &#8217;90s is essential listening, with a slight krautrock influence, warm analog electronics, and layers of ethereal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[103,105,104,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}