Artifact | 
 enlarge | Artist: Sound Tribe Sector 9
Label: System Recordings
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 51472
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 801655096123
EAN: 0801655096123
ASIN: B0007GAEK8
Release Date: February 8, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Musical Story, Yes | | • | Better Day | | • | By the Morning Sun | | • | Tokyo | | • | Artifact | | • | Native End | | • | ReEmergence | | • | Peoples | | • | GLOgli | | • | Today | | • | Tonight the Ocean Swallowed the Moon | | • | Forest Hu | | • | Somesing | | • | Trinocular | | • | Vibyl | | • | 8 & a extra | | • | Possibilities | | • | Peoples pt. II | | • | first mist over Clear Lake | | • | Music, Us |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
They say this CD was recorded between 2001 and 2004 "at home and on tour, in bedrooms, hotels, moving vehicles, parking garages...." But despite its name, this isn't an album of sketches, lost tracks, and other detritus. Instead, Artifact is a haunting document of ambient designs, trippy lounge, and cinematic atmospheres that occupy STS9's first new CD in five years. The "home" recordings are actually verite vignettes providing connecting tissue for songs like "Better Day," a haunting lament with breathy guest vocals from Audio Angel (Rashida Clendening), and the space-age lounge music of "Somesing." A band that plays as much as it programs, STS9's compositions have a natural flow and integrity, as if they were grown as much as computed. "Tokyo" is a hypnotic jam of slide guitar and electronic atmospheres lashed together on a kinetic groove sliced by dream sequence logic. Imagine the Grateful Dead going glitch on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and you have a good sense of STS9's sound and why they've played events from the alternative festival Coachella to jam-band gatherings like Bonaroo. Artifact doesn't look back, but forward to a horizon still a few moments in the future. --John Diliberto
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| Customer Reviews:
 Something for everybody, but maybe not the whole album... May 6, 2008
P. Russo
In Brief: More approachable than other STS9. Yet, this album is not for most people. For the rest, highly recommended.
I purchased Artifact after hearing the song "Tokyo" on Pandora. I was stunned when I heard this song. I am familiar with STS9 from their album "Live at Home." After hearing that album, I was of the opinion that STS9 were experts at creating strings of unique sounds and calling them songs. "Tokyo" is an exhilarating song. It is full of deep, grimy bass that (amazingly) seems to speak to you at points. "Tokyo" proves that STS9 knows how to write a melody. Unfortunately, they don't always choose to do so.
I'm an advocate of always listening to an album from beginning to end in its entirety, but unless you are an experienced IDM/Glitch/Ambient Electronica advocate, I would recommend that you listen to the following songs and call it a day:
(1) Tokyo
(2) Peoples
(3) Peoples pt.II
And for the more adventurous: (4) Somesing
Make sure you turn up the bass.
For the rest of you, I recommend this album. The less melodic tracks (few in number) seem to wander, but it is part of the album's journey. And the album truly is a journey. The first track even boasts that the album is a musical story.
The songs are often journeys, too. Many of the songs have two clear halves. And the second half is usually better, so don't give up on a song if the first minute bores you.
This album is a gem. The album loses a star because there are a few songs that I regularly skip.
 Stunning May 6, 2007
Mark T (St Louis, MO)
Regardless of their stature as a live act, this is a wonderful recording. Strong, interesting songs, beautifully played and produced, make this album an easy 5 stars.
Studio STS9 April 29, 2006
T. Pratt (Kansas City, MO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is always difficult to listen to a great live band confined to the studio, but STS9 seems to bridge a gap. While I can easily say that STS9 is curently one of the strongest bands on tour today, studio work sometimes will take a second seat. However, in the case of Artifact, the tribe seems to weave a layer and texture of music that is often lost on traditional records. Innovation, energy and spirit define STS9 as best as i can. As the leaders of the "innovation generation" of the jam band scene, a la Disco Biscuits and Brothers Past to name a few, STS9 gives an energy that can't be matched. "Artifact" is just another step in blazing the ever evolving sonic soundscape that is Sound Tribe Sector 9
Lush Livetronica September 7, 2005
C. Scott
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Far from being sleep inducing, new age, elevator fluff, this is an uplifting, atmospheric album. Imagine a less brooding Massive Attack or a more adventurous Thievery Corporation. The music here is rich with sophisticated (but accessible) beats, a strong sense of musical exploration, and yet, capable of the wistful moments found in Kevin Shields' Lost in Translation soundscapes. This largely instrumental affair does feature a handful of melodic and soulful vocal tracks reminiscent of M.J. Cole, Koop, and Zero 7. Fans of Tortoise are easily encouraged to experience the wide array of musical ideas and sonic textures that Sound Tribe Sector 9 have produced.
Rather than songs engineered by those with a technological approach, musicianship plays the key role on this warm and intellectual electronica. Supposedly, STS9 are wonderful on stage (I admit to never having seen them live) but this review is based on the album in question and not on the group's direction or capabilities beyond the studio. A truly refreshing and lyrical album, `Artifact' is worthy of investigation.
 Sorry Effort September 5, 2005
CHOOchoorevoo (Montana)
5 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was really excited about this album and I can not even begin to express what a total disappointment it was. I kept thinking the next track would have some life or some beat and it never got going. Before you invest in this maybe pick up a live show somewhere --if they allow taping of course-- and see for yourself if you can stomach STS9. Still can't believe how overwhelmingly BORING this album is/was. And believe me I have an open mind to the type of cutting edge experimental music this is trying to be.
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