The Director's Cut

Rating

Album: The Director's Cut
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Godfather	More Info...	0:02
2)	Der Golem	More Info...	0:02
3)	Experiment in Terror	More Info...	0:02
4)	One Step Beyond	More Info...	0:03
5)	Night Of The Hunter (Remix)	More Info...	0:01
6)	Cape Fear	More Info...	0:01
7)	Rosemary's Baby	More Info...	0:03
8)	The Devil Rides Out (Remix)	More Info...	0:01
9)	Spider Baby	More Info...	0:02
10)	The Omen (Ave Satani)	More Info...	0:01
11)	Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer	More Info...	0:03
12)	Vendetta	More Info...	0:02
13)	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	More Info...	0:04
14)	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me	More Info...	0:03
15)	Charade	More Info...	0:03
16)	Charade	More Info...	0:03

Album: The Director's Cut
#	Song Title		Time
1)	The Godfather	More Info...	0:02
2)	Der Golem	More Info...	0:02
3)	Experiment in Terror	More Info...	0:02
4)	One Step Beyond	More Info...	0:03
5)	Night Of The Hunter (Remix)	More Info...	0:01
6)	Cape Fear	More Info...	0:01
7)	Rosemary's Baby	More Info...	0:03
8)	The Devil Rides Out (Remix)	More Info...	0:01
9)	Spider Baby	More Info...	0:02
10)	The Omen (Ave Satani)	More Info...	0:01
11)	Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer	More Info...	0:03
12)	Vendetta	More Info...	0:02
13)	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	More Info...	0:04
14)	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me	More Info...	0:03
15)	Charade	More Info...	0:03
16)	Charade	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Fantomas: Mike Patton, Buzz Osborne, Dave Lombardo, Trevor Dunn.
Recorded at Grandmaster Recorders, Hollywood, California.
Adapter: Mike Patton.
Audio Mixer: S. "Husky" H?skulds.
Recording information: Division Hi-Fi, San Francisco, CA; Grandmaster Recorders, Hollywood, CA; Hook Studios, Studio City, CA.
Arranger: Mike Patton.
Fantomas stand with their feet planted horizontally across the soft dimensions of your face, warping the shape of your skull and shoulders with their off-color explosions. With expectations withering on the floor, leaving a viscous stink, nothing in their hands is concrete. As a follow-up to their 30-song debut, throughout which vocalist Mike Patton never formed a single actual word, Fantomas offer these 16 new creations, all realigned versions of film soundtracks, ranging from the notorious theme to Rosemary's Baby to the obscure and peculiar wank of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. While there are many similarities to the dispersed flip-flopping styles of their earlier work, The Director's Cut breaks new ground with a thick jagged axe. First, most noticeably, are the even more varied vocal stylings; Patton's sweet croon on "Experiment in Terror" is nothing you've heard before from him on a Fantomas recording, along with many of the other croaking, spitting, pissing, screaming noises he excretes. Yet another testament to the unabashed genius of Mike Patton and his co-conspirators, leaving those caught up in the rapture with mouths even more full with thick drool. ~ Blake Butler

Professional Reviews

The Wire (8/01, p.55) - "...Each arrangement pulsates with a dark intelligence....Weird and wonderful..."

CMJ (8/01, p.80) - "...Inventive....cementing Patton's reputation as an artist..."

NME (Magazine) (7/28/01, p.42) - 8 out of 10 - "...Genius...16 reinterpreted scores from movies like ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE OMEN and so forth....Patton croons devilishly while skycrapers collapse behind him, and the result is pure rock operatics..."