Nerve Net

Nerve Net
Studio album by Brian Eno
Released 1 September 1992
Genre Experimental, electronic
Length 64:25
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Brian Eno
Brian Eno chronology
Wrong Way Up
(1990)
Nerve Net
(1992)
The Shutov Assembly
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert Christgau[2]
Drowned in Sound8/10[3]
Entertainment WeeklyC−[4]
Pitchfork7.7/10[5]
PopMatters9/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone [8]
Trouser Pressgenerally favourable[9]

Nerve Net is a 1992 music album by the British musician Brian Eno. It marked a return to more rock-oriented material, mixed with heavily syncopated rhythms, experimental electronic compositions and an occasional touch of jazz. The ambient sensibility is still there on several tracks, though it is often darker and moodier than the pieces Eno is best known for.

The album generated 12-inch and CD singles for the pieces "Ali Click"[10] and "Fractal Zoom",[11] both of which featured various remixes of the songs by the likes of Moby, Markus Dravs and Isaac Osapanin.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Brian Eno.

  1. "Fractal Zoom" – 6:24
  2. "Wire Shock" – 5:27
  3. "What Actually Happened?" – 4:41
  4. "Pierre in Mist" – 3:47
  5. "My Squelchy Life" – 4:02
  6. "Juju Space Jazz" – 4:26
  7. "The Roil, the Choke" – 5:00
  8. "Ali Click" – 4:13
  9. "Distributed Being" – 6:10
  10. "Web" – 6:21
  11. "Web (Lascaux Mix)" – 9:44
  12. "Decentre" – 3:26

2004/2005 Remaster

All Saints/Hannibal/Ryko (HNCD 1477)
On 28 June 2005, a remastered version of Nerve Net was issued with the following bonus tracks:

  1. "Fractal Zoom" (Separate Time Edit)
  2. "Ali Click" (Doo Gap Mix)

All Saints/Hannibal (HNCD 1477) / (HNCD1477ADV)
Some versions, including a promotional disc released in 2004, contained the following bonus tracks:

  1. "Fractal Zoom" (Mary's Birthday Edit)
  2. "Ali Click" (Trance Mix Short)

All Saints (ASCDA41) / Beat Records (BRC-101)
Yet other versions, instead of bonus remixes, included an enhanced section with an "Ali Click" video by Jerome Lefdup and Lari Flash.

2014 Remaster

The December 2014 remaster includes no bonus material on the Nerve Net disc, but does include a bonus disc with the original My Squelchy Life album:

  1. "I Fall Up"
  2. "The Harness"
  3. "My Squelchy Life"
  4. "Tutti Forgetti"
  5. "Stiff"
  6. "Some Words"
  7. "Juju Space Jazz"
  8. "Under"
  9. "Everybody’s Mother"
  10. "Little Apricot"
  11. "Over"

My Squelchy Life supposedly was to be released in September 1991, but as the release was postponed to February 1992, Eno decided to re-edit the album into Nerve Net instead.[12]

Personnel

Singles

In conjunction with Nerve Net, two CD maxi-singles were released.

Ali Click

"Ali Click"
Single by Brian Eno
Released 1992
Genre Experimental music, Electronic music, Remix
Length 40:57
Label Opal
Producer(s) Brian Eno

Ali Click (1992) is a CD Maxi-Single of remixes of the song "Ali Click" from Brian Eno's album Nerve Net. It is also notable for including a version of "I Fall Up", a track from the withdrawn My Squelchy Life album, which is longer than the 3:42 version included in Eno Box II: Vocal.

  1. "Ali Click [Grid Master Edit]" – 4:48
  2. "Ali Click [Album Edit]" – 3:41
  3. "Ali Click [Rural 'Doo Gap' Mix]" – 4:43
  4. "Ali Click [Trance Mix – Long]" – 7:28
  5. "Ali Click [Darkly Mad Mix]" – 4:09
  6. "Ali Click [Grid Master Remix]" – 7:10
  7. "Ali Click [Beirut Hilton Mix]" – 4:04
  8. "I Fall Up" – 4:54

Fractal Zoom

"Fractal Zoom"
Single by Brian Eno
Released 1992
Genre Experimental music, Electronic music, Remix
Length 69:43
Label Opal
Producer(s)

Brian Eno. Additional production by Moby.

Fractal Zoom' (1992) is a CD Maxi-Single of remixes of the song "Fractal Zoom" from Brian Eno's album Nerve Net. Tracks marked '*' mixed by Markus "Dravius" Draws. Tracks marked '**' mixed remixed with additional production by Moby.

  1. "Fractal Zoom [Separate Time Edit]" * – 4:14
  2. "Fractal Zoom [Mary's Birthday Edit]" ** – 3:50
  3. "Fractal Zoom [Up River Mix]" ** – 8:10
  4. "Fractal Zoom [Small Country]" * – 7:00
  5. "The Roil, The Choke" – 5:03
  6. "Fractal Zoom [Naive Mix I]" ** – 5:27
  7. "Fractal Zoom [Zaire Mix]" * – 6:16
  8. "Fractal Zoom [Naive Mix II]" ** – 5:56
  9. "Fractal Zoom [Landed Mix]" ** – 5:55
  10. "Fractal Zoom [Bucolic Mix]" ** – 4:44
  11. "Fractal Zoom [Separate Time Full Length]" * – 6:26
  12. "Fractal Zoom [Mary's Birthday Mix]" ** – 7:06

References

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