TRACKLIST:

CD1-01 Modernité Part I (23:47)
CD1-02 Modernité Part II (16:31)
CD1-03 Modernité Part III (16:39)
CD1-04 Modernité Part IV (18:04)

CD2-01 Crimson (17:33)


Neural Network are Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik, Oddgeir Hvidsten, Lars Kristian Sande from Bergen, Norway. They were recording ambient music in mid-nineties.

Their debut album "Brain-State-In-A-Box" does have its fair share of datedness; still, its a genuinely emotional piece of ambient techno with undeniable charm and melodic qualities. The follow-up "Modernité", a concept album of sorts, delivered what the first album promised and belongs in the canon of 90s ambient music; it could easily have been one of the better discs on Fax. Instead its one of those obscurities that only a few rabid collectors of electronic listening music know about.
A Neural Network album was also scheduled for release on the Belgian KK label, but it never saw the light of day, which maybe was a shame. Anyway the group split in the latter half of the 90s; Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik continued to make ambient music in the very excellent Circular project (together with Bjarte Andreassen), whereas Oddgeir Hvidsten and Lars Kristian Sande formed Motion Control and released minimal techno and then some sleazy house music with more mixed results.

Modernité is a 75 minute ambient subcity soundscape, and ranked as one of the classic and most inventive releases of ambient music ever to come from Scandinavia.

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CODE Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009 EAC extraction logfile from 4. August 2009, 14:33 Neural Network / Modernite Used drive  : HL-DT-STRW/DVD GCC-4241N  Adapter: 1  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format              : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate                : 768 kBit/s Quality                        : High Add ID3 tag                    : No Command line compressor        : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\wavpack.exe Additional command line options : -hmxd -w "GENRE=%m" -w "DATE=%y" -w "COMMENT=Released by a-one" %s %d TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 | 23:46.37 |        0    |  106986          2  | 23:46.37 | 16:31.28 |    106987    |  181339          3  | 40:17.65 | 16:39.35 |    181340    |  256299          4  | 56:57.25 | 18:17.22 |    256300    |  338596  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename C:\Rips\Neural Network - Modernite.wav     Peak level 58.9 %     Range quality 100.0 %     Test CRC FDADEBE4     Copy CRC FDADEBE4     Copy OK No errors occurred End of status report

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CODE Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009 EAC extraction logfile from 4. August 2009, 13:42 Neural Network / Crimson Used drive  : HL-DT-STRW/DVD GCC-4241N  Adapter: 1  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format              : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate                : 768 kBit/s Quality                        : High Add ID3 tag                    : No Command line compressor        : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\wavpack.exe Additional command line options : -hmxd -w "GENRE=%m" -w "DATE=%y" -w "COMMENT=Released by a-one" %s %d TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 | 22:30.05 |        0    |  101254  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename C:\Rips\Neural Network - Crimson.wav     Peak level 87.5 %     Range quality 100.0 %     Test CRC B4AED89B     Copy CRC B4AED89B     Copy OK No errors occurred End of status report

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CODE REM GENRE "Ambient, Abstract" REM DATE 1995 REM DISCID 3211A204 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" CATALOG 0000000000000 PERFORMER "Neural Network" TITLE "Modernite" FILE "Neural Network - Modernite.wv" WAVE   TRACK 01 AUDIO     TITLE "modernite part I"     PERFORMER "Neural Network"     INDEX 01 00:00:00   TRACK 02 AUDIO     TITLE "modernite part II"     PERFORMER "Neural Network"     INDEX 01 23:46:37   TRACK 03 AUDIO     TITLE "modernite part III"     PERFORMER "Neural Network"     INDEX 01 40:17:65   TRACK 04 AUDIO     TITLE "modernite part IV"     PERFORMER "Neural Network"     INDEX 01 56:57:25

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CODE REM GENRE "Techno, Ambient" REM DATE 1995 REM DISCID 02054601 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" CATALOG 0000000000000 PERFORMER "Neural Network" TITLE "Crimson" FILE "Neural Network - Crimson.wv" WAVE   TRACK 01 AUDIO     TITLE "crimson"     PERFORMER "Neural Network"     INDEX 01 00:00:00