Music for the Head | Porcupine Tree - Orchidia (Demo, 2000) @musicforthehead | Uploaded October 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Taken from the 7" Four Chords That Made a Million single.
Taken from the 7" Four Chords That Made a Million single.
![I.E.M. - I.E.M. [full album, 1996]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f16a5Hzgu6I/hqdefault.jpg "I.E.M. - I.E.M. [full album, 1996]
For those unfamiliar, this is the debut (and self-titled) album from I.E.M., or the Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, Steven Wilsons moniker for his krautrock and psychedelic explorations created in 1996-2001. I.E.M. released 3 studio albums and 1 EP in this period, and this is the first. Definitely some gems in here!
Tracklist:
0:00 - The Gospel According to the I.E.M.
12:59 - The Last Will and Testament According to Emma Peel
21:09 - Fie Kesh
29:32 - Deafman
This album in particular was created during the creation of the Porcupine Tree albums The Sky Moves Sideways and Signify, and features drum parts from Chris Maitland (credited under a pseudonym Jennis Clivack in the project). The first tracks drums are lifted from the sessions for the TSMS b-side Men of Wood, which can be heard on the Stars Die 1991-1997 compilation.
Chris: “The history of it is that it’s one of my silly made-up names… When it got to Steven’s IEM albums, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice, instead of always playing with the same old people–and this is different music–why don’t I go under a pseudonym?’ So I called myself Jennis Clivack on the first two IEM albums.”
Since The Last Will and Testament of Emma Peel and many other I.E.M. tracks are missing from Youtube (and those that are uploaded are usually of subpar quality), I will be uploading the discography in full in the coming days (4 vids - 1 per release).
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Remastered audio and album art taken from the 2010 CD box set. Background photography by Carl Glover is also taken from this box.
Originally released in January 1996 on Delerium Records.
All credit to Steven Wilson, Chris Maitland, Geoff Leigh, Mark Simnett and Colin Edwin
Learn more about the relationship of I.E.M. to Porcupine Tree here: https://neuralrustsite.wordpress.com/signify/
To support SW, buy the FLAC for all the IEM releases here: https://burningshed.com/iem_complete_flac")
![I.E.M. - Have Come for Your Children [full album, 2001]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fQHUvNW4kVE/hqdefault.jpg "I.E.M. - Have Come for Your Children [full album, 2001]
The final release from Steven Wilsons I.E.M. project, released in September 2001. Unlike the previous albums, this one contains much less anonymity, with the liner notes listing the names of all the musicians involved: Colin Edwin, Dave Anderson, Geoff Leigh, Mark Simnett, Steven Wilson
From the SW site: The third IEM album mostly uses improvisations from 1999 as source material, heavily reconstructed and overdubbed in the studio in August 2001. The exception is track 6 which is a piece for hammered dulcimer and mellotron choir.
Tracklist:
0:00 - Untitled 1
35:38 - Untitled 2
43:30 - Untitled 3
50:40 - Untitled 4
1:02:42 - Untitled 5
1:08:10 - Piece for Hammered Dulcimer and Mellotron Choir
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Remastered audio and album art taken from the 2010 CD box set. Background photography also taken from the box set.
Originally released in September 2001 on Headphone Dust.
All credit goes to all musicians involved in I.E.M.")
