Torture Tech Overdrive
{{Infobox album
| name = Torture Tech Overdrive
| type = compilation
| artist = Various artists
| cover = Various Artists - Torture Tech Overdrive.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1991}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Electro-industrial
| length = 42:25
| label = If It Moves...
| producer =
| chronology = Re-Constriction Records V/A
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = The Cyberflesh Conspiracy
| next_year = 1992
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative cover
| type = compilation
| cover = Various Artists - Torture Tech Overdrive (1994).jpg
| caption = 1994 CD cover
}}
}}
Torture Tech Overdrive is a various artists compilation album released in 1991 by If It Moves....{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=mw0000122277|pure_url=yes}}|title=Various Artists: Torture-Tech Overdrive > Overview |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=July 26, 2019}} In October 1994 the album was reissued for a limited run of 1000 pressings by Cleopatra Records with an extended track listing additional versions of tracks.{{cite journal|first=Chris |last=Christian |url=http://www.sonic-boom.com/review/torture.tech.overdrive.html |title=Various Artists: Torture Tech Overdrive |journal=Sonic Boom |date=October 1995 |volume=3 |issue=8 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}}{{cite journal |first=Becky |last=Barnhart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQw5AQAAIAAJ |title=Schwann Spectrum |journal=Schwann Spectrum |publisher=Stereophile, Incorporated |date=1995 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=209 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}}{{cite journal |first=Becky |last=Barnhart |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOwZAQAAIAAJ |title=Schwann Spectrum |journal=Schwann Spectrum |publisher=Stereophile, Incorporated |date=1996 |volume=Winter 1996-1997 |pages=255 |isbn=9781575980386 |accessdate=July 26, 2020}} The uncredited song is "Back in Black", an cover of the hard rock band AC/DC by Chase's musical outlet Rendering Service. The song "Lupe Velez" by Jimmy Jazz is about the illogicality of attempting to create a "beautiful suicide."{{cite book |first=Michelle |last=Vogel |author-link=Michelle Vogel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Qt_kZTt4JYC |title=Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire" |publisher=McFarland & Company |date=July 10, 2012 |page=222 |isbn=9780786489978 |accessdate=July 26, 2019}}
Reception
Track listing
{{tracklist
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Fight!
| extra1 = Biohazard PCB
| writer1 = Keith Arem, Jack Boughner
| length1 = 3:49
| title2 = Character Machine
| note2 = Reanimated Edit
| writer2 = Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski
| extra2 = Fixed Image
| length2 = 4:47
| title3 = CDB
| note3 = Gizmo Edit
| writer3 = R. Orret, Steve Watkins
| extra3 = Scar Tissue
| length3 = 3:41
| title4 = Countdown to Meltdown '94
| note4 = Gate Edit
| writer4 = Timothy Wiles
| extra4 = Death Method
| length4 = 4:28
| title5 = Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)
| writer5 = Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin
| extra5 = STG
| length5 = 4:21
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Numbing Device
| note1 = 1991 V. Remix
| writer1 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn
| extra1 = Sweat Engine
| length1 = 4:26
| title2 = White Noise
| writer2 = William Hayden, Keith York
| extra2 = Apolitiq
| length2 = 4:18
| title3 = So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)
| writer3 = Peter Stone
| extra3 = Xorcist
| length3 = 5:05
| title4 = Back in Black
| note4 = AC/DC cover
| writer4 = Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young
| extra4 = Rendering Service
| length4 = 3:27
| title5 = Freedom
| writer5 = Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling
| extra5 = Yeht Mae
| length5 = 4:04
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = 1994 CD track listing
| extra_column = Artist
| title1 = Fight!
| extra1 = Biohazard PCB
| writer1 = Keith Arem, Jack Boughner
| length1 = 3:49
| title2 = Numbing Device
| extra2 = Sweat Engine
| writer2 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn
| length2 = 4:26
| title3 = CDB
| note3 = Gizmo Edit
| writer3 = R. Orret, Steve Watkins
| extra3 = Scar Tissue
| length3 = 3:41
| title4 = Shallow Grave (Date With an Embalmer Mix)
| writer4 = Chad Bishop, Allan King, Shayde Sartin
| extra4 = STG
| length4 = 4:21
| title5 = White Noise
| extra5 = Apolitiq
| writer5 = William Hayden, Keith York
| length5 = 4:18
| title6 = Crock of Shit
| writer6 = Shonn Bratlien, Barry Dost, Johan Sherriffs, Thomas Patrick Smith
| extra6 = Pain Emission
| length6 = 2:59
| title7 = Character Machine
| writer7 = Anthony Floriano, Kenneth Spain, Stephen Synoski
| extra7 = Fixed Image
| length7 = 4:47
| title8 = Secret Hate
| writer8 = Michael Gunn, Jeff Tatman
| extra8 = Death Industry
| length8 = 4:52
| title9 = Manifesto Primitive
| writer9 = Jeremy Goody
| extra9 = A Release Project
| length9 = 3:36
| title10 = So Big (Original Un-Edited Mix)
| writer10 = Peter Stone
| extra10 = Xorcist
| length10 = 5:05
| title11 = Countdown to Meltdown '94
| writer11 = Timothy Wiles
| extra11 = Death Method
| length11 = 4:28
| title12 = Flesh Feeds Soul (Perversion '94)
| note12 = Razormaid Mix
| writer12 = Steven Seibold
| extra12 = Hate Dept.
| length12 = 4:17
| title13 = Freedom
| writer13 = Jeremy Daw, Lynda Sterling
| extra13 = Yeht Mae
| length13 = 4:04
| title14 = Technocality
| writer14 = Mark Deadrick, Trevor Henthorn
| extra14 = Sweat Engine
| length14 = 5:01
| title15 = Roundhouse
| writer15 = Larry Rainwater
| extra15 = Ex-Voto
| length15 = 4:03
| title16 = Glass
| note16 = Clean Mix
| writer16 = James Basore, John Belew, Marc Phillips, Christian Void
| extra16 = Killing Floor
| length16 = 4:41
| title17 = Lupe Velez
| writer17 = Justin Hopkins
| extra17 = Jimmy Jazz
| length17 = 0:49
| title18 = Back in Black
| note18 = AC/DC cover
| writer18 = Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young
| extra18 = Rendering Service
| length18 = 3:27
}}
Personnel
Release history
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Discogs master |master=58463 |name=Torture Tech Overdrive |type=album}}
Category:1991 compilation albums
Category:Electro-industrial compilation albums