The Download project is the brainchild of Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy), Dwayne Goettel, Phil Western, and Mark Spybey.
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Toronto-based label Artoffact Records announced in April that it would be reissuing the entire Nettwerk Records-owned catalogue of electronic and experimental group Download. The releases will come this summer, for the first time ever, on vinyl.
Download recorded three albums and one full-length EP for Nettwerk between 1996 and 2000: The Eyes of Stanley Pain, III, and Effector, along with the Sidewinder EP. Those albums, particularly The Eyes of Stanley Pain, have become legendary to electronic music fans and Skinny Puppy collectors alike. Famously, all the artwork, save for that on Effector, was done by Dave McKean.
Download started as a post-Skinny Puppy project, following the break-up of the famous industrial band in the mid-90s, initially as a collaboration between Cevin Key and the late Dwayne Goettel. Dead Voices on Air mastermind Mark Spybey, as well as Phil Western (AKA Philth) also joined the band. The band has recorded several albums for Nettwerk, Metropolis Records, and Key's own Subsconscious Communications imprint, and the majority of these have been reissued on vinyl by Artoffact.
Details about the four new reissues can be found online at these links:
http://www.stormingthebase.com/download-the-eyes-of-stanley-pain-2lp-vinyl-splatter/
http://www.stormingthebase.com/download-sidewinder-vinyl-splatter/
http://www.stormingthebase.com/download-iii-2lp-vinyl-splatter/
http://www.stormingthebase.com/download-effector-2lp-vinyl-splatter/
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At once accessible and musically very challenging, The Eyes of Stanley Pain has definitely become one of the benchmarks of the industrial style.
—Theo Kavadias, AllMusic
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