Waveform Transmission Vol. 2

Waveform Transmission Vol. 2 is an album by American electronic musician and record producer Robert Hood, released under the alias The Vision.[1] Issued in 1993 via Tresor record label, it is the second instalment of the Waveform Transmission series.[2] Featuring a different style from Hood's future releases, the record attributes influences to his collective Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills.[3]

Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
Studio album by
The Vision
Released1993 (1993)
GenreDetroit techno
Length32:44
LabelTresor
ProducerVision
The Vision chronology
Toxin 12 EP
(1992)		 Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
(1993)		 Spectral Nomad
(1996)
Waveform Transmission chronology
Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
(1992)		 Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
(1993)		 Waveform Transmission Vol. 3
(1994)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

AllMusic critic Jason Birchmeier found the record to be "nowhere near as realized as his [Hood's] later Tresor recordings such as Internal Empire and Minimal Nation." Birchmeier further stated: "With the syncopated pounding and the maelstrom of looped laser sounds, a stark, austere motif pervades throughout these eight songs; unfortunately, the variety of experimental song ideas so common to his later work is notably absent."[3] Ruaridh Law of Fact described the tracks as "heavy, atonal DJ workouts with plenty of rattling percussion and relatively high BPMs," while comparing them to the "noisy, fast, unrefined-sounding techno" that Hood released on Hard Wax label.[4] Techno: The Rough Guide author Tim Barr thought that the record "demonstrates a distinctive and restless creativity that was all his own."[5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Vision.

  1. "K-Force" — 4:21
  2. "Liquification" — 2:01
  3. "Weapons" — 2:41
  4. "Gamma Scale" — 5:47
  5. "Chrome" — 3:23
  6. "Projectile Darts" — 5:06
  7. "The Protector" — 3:28
  8. "Magnetic Storm" — 5:41

Personnel

Album credits as adapted from CD liner notes.[6]

  • Vision — producer, mixing
  • Krypton — graphic design

References
  1. Birchmeier, Jason. "The Vision". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  2. Cetin, Marissa (October 24, 2018). "Tresor to reissue Jeff Mills' seminal 1994 album, Waveform Transmission Vol. 3". residentadvisor.net. Resident Advisor. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  3. Birchmeier, Jason. "The Vision - Waveform Transmission, Vol. 2". allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  4. Law, Ruaridh (June 30, 2010). "The Essential… Robert Hood". factmag.com. Fact. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  5. Barr, Tim (2000). Techno: The Rough Guide. Rough Guides. p. 173. ISBN 1858284341.
  6. Waveform Transmission Vol. 2 (CD liner notes). Robert Hood. Tresor. 1993.CS1 maint: others (link)
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