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Threat Level 5
Maschinen

I'd thought that Threat Level 5 had released only one album, but in searching for a Web page of theirs to link to, I discovered that I was wrong--wrong, wrong, wrong! Another Threat-ening slab of, uh, plastic came out last year, called The Threat Is Real. I don't know how it managed to slip under my normally keen radar for everything in the middlebrow electro genre. (Yeah, I said middlebrow. Too mean? Let's be honest, TL5 have some OK songs, but Front Line Assembly they're not.)

Anyway, may I please be excused from the rest of today's blog post? I'm off to hunt with grim determination for this missing CD.

Update: OK, so I need to curb my enthusiasm, as Larry David would say. Turns out The Threat Is Real is available as a download only, via iTunes. No physical CD release. Bummer. Won't stop me from buying it and burning it onto a CDR, but it would have been nice to have an old-school copy. I'm all about Luddism.

Also today:

46:27 FDH, Novaela
46:27 Hooverphonic, Blue Wonder Power Milk
46:27 Various artists, Scontrum, Act III
46:25 Edera, Ambiguous
46:25 Lunascape, Reminiscence
46:24 Die Form, Poupée Mécanique
46:24 Wappenbund, Preußen
46:22 A Challenge of Honour, Spartan Victories
New arrival! 55:37 Threat Level 5, The Threat Is Real
46:20 Moon Far Away, Belovodie
46:19 Death in June, But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?