COLLIDE

'Collide' is a live performance by Shreeve's band at the Elelectronic Music & Musicians' Association ('EMMA') 'festival' at Derby Assembly Rooms on 12th March 1994. 'Collide' comes at the end of Shreeve's period of electro-synth pop/rock influenced releases. In some ways it serves as a bridge between Shreeve's pop style and his later 'Berlin School' masterpieces recorded usually with collaborators (especially 'Redshift') where his live sequencing of a massive Moog IIIC modular is extraordinary. The musicians performing on 'Collide' (Mark Shreeve, James Goddard, Julian Shreeve) are the synthesists that later record as 'Redshift'.

Whilst Shreeve's synth pop has a good deal of 'bubble gum' in the sound, this is not true of 'Collide'. which is far more more rock and far more prog. 'Collide' is the Shreeve 'solo' album fans of heavier prog and synthesizers must add to their collection.

'Collide' represents the very best of Shreeve's 'solo' career. The pieces on this album vary from the full, in-your-face, heavy synth-prog ('Graveraver', 'Meateater', 'Assassin') to intricate, dark and detailed synth sequencing ('It', 'Pan-Galactic Anorak') alongside more pop and anthemic pieces ('Storm Column', 'Darkness Comes', 'The Stand').

I'm so very tempted to nudge this album into 5-stars because I don't think anything else occupies this unusual niche in the panoply of prog. But for now, four stars: "Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection" describes it very well.

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