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MPP002
Limited to 1500 
Special Digipak copies. 
Released September 2000.

An exploration of the experimental Japanese dance theatre. Butoh is an off-shoot of modern Japanese dance, exploring the beauty in what is malformed and horrific in humanity. While most of what has been released on the Middle Pillar Presents label has been ethereal in nature, it is with this compilation that we hoped to add a rhythmic nature to that aesthetic; to explore, dramatic movement and dance in this dark context.

"We are the erotic as well as the ascetic, the grotesque and beautiful, the fragmented ritualized and improvised whole. We experience the medium and world beyond our bodies not through stagnant objectification, but rather through intense mutual sensation within the movement of the dance."

For more information on Butoh, 
we recommend this site.
 

 

KOBE
"Primary" 1:49
tribal drumming / instrumental - exclusive track.
 

A MURDER OF ANGELS
"Words That Lay Buried Forever" 5:02
damnbient / instrumental - exclusive track.
 

MORS SYPHILITICA
"As A Mirror (Dance Hall Mix)" 5:08 
ethereal / female vocals - exclusive track.
 

THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN
"The Unaware 
(Smooth Motion Mix)" 3:01 
ethereal / goth / female vocals - exclusive mix 
of a track from 
Out of the Mists CD MPP994.
 

THE UNQUIET VOID
"Chrysalis" 6:16 
ethereal / tribal / instrumental - exclusive track.
 

SUMERLAND
"Morpheus (Repraise)" 3:49 
ethereal / male vocals - taken from the 
All Is Always Now CD-EP.
 

A MURDER OF ANGELS
"Vessel of the Incubi" 4:48 
damnbient / baroque / instrumental - 
exclusive track.
 

WENCH
"Damnation" 4:48 
ethereal / goth / female vocals - exclusive track.
 

THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN
"Midnight (Dancing There)" 4:35 
gothic / female vocal - exclusive mix of a track 
from from the One Winter's Night CD MPP999.
 

THE MIRROR REVEALS
"Moebius Stripped 
(There's Always Tomorrow Mix)" 5:44 
dark dance / eclectica / female vocal - 
exclusive mix of a track from the
Frames of Teknicolor CD MPP997.
 

THREAD
"Blue Darkness (Inverse Mix)" 6:39 
dark electronic /experimental / instrumental - exclusive mix of a track from 
Abnormal Love CD MPP993.
 

ZOAR
"Secrets of Death" 5:48 
dark industrial dance / instrumental - 
exclusive track.
 

THE UNQUIET VOID
"Angels (The Tortoises 
Are Nodding Mix)" 7:01 
dark electronic /experimental / vocal samples - exclusive mix of a track from the 
Between The Twilights CD MPP99.
 

KOBE
"Aftermath" 1:16 
tribal / industrial / instrumental - exclusive track.