I’ve added the audio album of “Live at the Pongmasters Ball” to the post that initially only had the video of the concert.

(Review from dprp.net, cduniverse.com)

This live album contains the recording of the band’s performance in the Cyclops Studios in the Bay area in June 1998. The show was simultaneously broadcasted on the Internet.

“Spice Doubt” is a word play on ‘spaced out’ and its subtitle ‘A Gig in the Ether’ is a pun on the track “Agog in the Ether” from “Pungent Effulgent”.

The set list is a nice collection of some of the best work of the Ozrics played live. Although the emphasis lies on their previous studio album “Curious Corn” with three songs (Oolite Grove, Oddentity and Papyrus), theres also material from Pungent Effulgent (Dissolution), Erpland (Eternal Wheel), Strangeitude (Sploosh), Arborescence (Myriapod) and Become the Other (Cat DNA and Ahu Belahu). The album features both the more ‘rock orientated’ material as well as the sequencer/electronics stuff. There’s not a lot of flute on this album and there’s none of the reggae tunes of Ozric Tentacles.

The opener “Cat DNA” emerges off the top, the band extending the original take with a swampy introduction before hurtling off into the cosmos. “Sploosh!” is everybody’s favorite quicksand jam-its sequencers boiling to the undertow of a motorik beat. The remaining agenda lavishes the band’s trademark humoresque touches, frenzied drumming, and sounds wrenched from a parallel universe.

Because of the nice mixture, as well as the marvellous live performance, it can be a nice introduction for listeners who are not familiar with the Ozrics yet.

Line-up:
- Ed Wynne / guitars, synths, mists
- Seaweed (Christoper Lenox-Smith) / synths, strands
- John Egan / flutes
- Rad (Conrad Prince) / drums, spiders
- Zia Geelani / bass, spongeba

Track List:
01. Cat DNA – 8:11
02. Eternal Wheel – 9:31
03. Sploosh! – 7:04
04. Ahu Belahu – 2:46
05. Papyrus – 6:30
06. Oolite Grove & Citadel Jam – 10:28
07. Oddentity – 7:22
08. Dissolution – 10:08
09. Myriapod – 5:48
10. Spice Doubt – 9:43

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