''Experiment Zero'' is an album by the American band

Man or Astro-man? Man or Astro-man? is an American surf rock group that formed in Auburn, Alabama in the early 1990s and came to prominence over the following decade. Primarily instrumental, Man or Astro-man? blended the surf rock style of the early 1960s like ...

It was released in 1996 by

Touch and Go Records Touch and Go Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. After its genesis as a handmade fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s underground and alternative rock scenes. Tou ...

Production

Produced by Steve Albini, the album was recorded in three days.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that the band "deploys a manic punk velocity, and sprinkles its music with sine-wave oscillator noises and space-documentary sound bites; otherwise its material is fairly faceless." The ''

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'' concluded that, as "a celebration of robotic white-guy stiffness, this music has the soul of a ''Jetsons'' episode."

Track listing

#"Stereo Phase Test" #"Television Fission" #"DNI" #"Planet Collision" #"Big Trak Attack" #"9 Volt" #"Evil Plans of Planet Spectra" #"Anoxia" #"Maximum Radiation Level" #"King of the Monsters" #"Cyborg Control" #"Test Driver" (

Takeshi Terauchi , also known as Terry, was a Japanese instrumental rock guitarist. His preferred guitar was a black Mosrite with a white pickguard. His guitar sound was characterized by frenetic picking, heavy use of tremolo picking and frequent use of his gu ...

) #"Television Man" (

Talking Heads Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.Talkin ...

) #"Z-X3" #"Principles Unknown" #"The Space Alphabet" - (Vinyl-only bonus track)

References

{{Authority control Man or Astro-man? albums 1996 albums Touch and Go Records albums