Tracklist
- Continental Drift
- Cops and Pooters
- Also Sprach Siphonaptera
- Thripatronik: 1st Instar
- Strange Figment
- Slackening
- Tiara Ruck Song
- Thripatronik: 2nd Instar
- Eardrums Scorned
- Absent Seduction
- Thripatronik: 3rd Instar
- The Entomology of Sound
- Casbah Air
- Thripatronik: 4th Instar
- Nettle Bison
- Chamber Axis
- Sallow Newt
Releases
- 2006 Digital/CD-R (self-released)
- 2017 CD: Klanggalerie gg238
This album was originally released in 2006 as a download only and there was also a tiny edition on CD-R, which was mainly given away to friends.
The new CD edition is reworked and remixed, with brand new cover art by Poxodd.
Versions
Dave, “Back in 2006, much to my surprise, I found myself making music again after a long gap. Starting at the bottom of a steep learning curve, The Entomology of Sound was the first result, followed by a couple of other collections which reworked some of the ideas of The Entomology of Sound. I made a few CDRs for friends, sold a few via MySpace and offered some as free downloads.
“As the Renaldo and the Loaf reissue series came to its conclusion, and The Digital Larynx appeared on From Vienna with Love, Klanggalerie suggested releasing some material by The Darkening Scale ‘properly’. Given that much of the material was nearly 10 years old and that I now felt that, with hindsight, there were a lot of things that I would have done differently and some things I wouldn’t have done at all.
“In preparing this CD I was in the fortunate position of being able to rework and edit a lot of the material and use related material from Six Things Recycled and Stone Deaf Mythology. The experience of producing the bonus discs for the RATL reissue series also helped, especially with composing new pieces ‘on the fly’, so to speak.”