The Tic Tok Men - Later Albums

Later Albums

In 2000 the Tic Tok Men released Arecebo, a space-age theme electronic album. Many consider this album to be the quintessential Tic Tok sound. A 10 minute song called Flatline has been compared to Kraftwerk Autobahn. Arecebo was the top selling CD at online music distribution company Ampcast for over two years.

2001 saw their next album Decomputerization which ventured into the IDM / Darkwave genre and away from their traditional self-proclaimed "retrotechno electronica" sound. The main theme of this CD is directed at propaganda, lying governments, covering up truth, war, and death. The album artwork depicts The Tic Tok Men blowing up and shooting computers with shotguns .

Decomputerization was followed up that same year by two Recomputerization : Collective Decomputerization albums. The two CD's are a collaboration between The Tic Tok Men and 20 other artists . The artists were given the raw vocal and musical tracks from the song Decomputerization and allowed total artistic freedom to mutate and bend as they saw fit. Some tracks have been completely reworked and sound nothing like the original concept. The different interpretations convert the song into Dance, Acoustic, Rock, Techno, Breakbeat and various other genre styles.

In 2003, again changing their tune, The Tic Tok Men released an ambient experimental album titled Borderland. Borderland was created using only a small number of organic and synthetic sounds. These short two or three second clips were tuned, lengthened, shortened, and otherwise mutated into variations of themselves. The sounds were then layered in digital editing software to created the melodies and rhythms.