LIFESAVER LABORATORIES

Email adress:michaelk@pacifier,com

Inspired by masters of sound and vision such as: Miles Davis, Salvador Dali, John Cage and Brian Eno, Lifesaver Laboratories' Michael Kelsey gives life to soundscapes of his own that paint a picture in the mind's eye. Lifesaver Laboratories' Tone Casualties debut, Terms & Conditions, follows the strong reviews garnered from their self-released LP Under Blue Light. Recorded with a series of synthesizers, analog tape machines and a bit of ingenuity, the music contained within leans towards the darker side of ambient music. Incorporating organic sounds with electronic sweeps, Terms & Conditions should appeal to fans of ambient bands such as Global Communication as well as the slightly adventurous new age listener.

Reviews:

NO. 77 NOV-DEC 1997-Michael Davis

Dark, ambient, they call it. Is that new age in a minor key? Presets with attitude? Scowling chord progressions, ground down by the sands of time? In the hands of Lifesaver Laboratories, it's a series of effectively evoked atmospheres which do indeed suggest deep jungle shadows, purple clouds, and on "Sign Here," with its metal clanking against obliquely ominous chords, the soundtrack for some interplanetary jailbreak. Loops, samples, synths, this guy's got the works, but except for some strange juxtapositions of songbirds and storm-in-the-distance rumblings during "Current Twist," his sound paintings hold together, either driven by drones or digitized thumb piano patterns. Whether Kelsey is exposing dark portions of his soul or just cruising for a soundtrack deal is kinda hard to tell.

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INK NINETEEN (SEPTEMBER 1997)by Carl Glaser

Minimalist industrial sounds on a label that is a division of Klasky Csupo, the animation studio that brings us Rugrats. Subtle rhythms and provocative instruments fade in and out of existence, each contributing a small fraction to a repeating whole.

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by Jim Aiken - KEYBOARD MAGAZINE (October 1997)

Eccentric ambient techno. "Don't Touch The Glass" melds what you'd ordinarily expect to be cliched nature noises (birds, frogs, surf) with underground machine groans and a lethargic string line, and the result is both evocative and provocative. In "Noon at Nite" and "Interview", funky loops percolate along, decorated here and there by wistful synth licks. Michael F. Kelsey (www.pacifier.com/~michaelk) is LL.

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by T.S.- Rocklove - (October 1997)

Trying to dissect, analyze and make sense out of this so-called new instrumental music is a feeble, but noble attempt to boost the writer's credibility. I'm sure if you were to ask Michael F. Kelsey - the man behind the machine behind the name Lifesaver Laboratories - to do the same, his response would be as ambiguous and murky as the sounds he creates. Terms and Conditions is transcending, not trance inducing. Kelsey's mode of communication is strictly electronics, samplers and other space-inhibiting effects that push the force of unconventionality to the outer limits. Take this home, go to your room, lock the door and close your eyes - don't forget to press play - and listen. Don't dissect, analyze and try to make sense out of this - it would be a feeble but noble attempt.

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