Bratalarm Crackme Load. By Paris Pompor October 21, 2005 DECODER RING Friday night at 8, Metro Theatre, 624 George Street, city, 9287 2000, $22 Are Decoder Ring channelling Pink Floyd? It's every band's dream to craft a classic album. A sprawling, visionary epic that redefines our view of the musical cosmos. A long-player guaranteed a place in most record buyers' collections.

It's this vision that Sydney dance act Decoder Ring have set their sights on. Not surprisingly, an album such as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is name-checked in the bio accompanying their third album Fractions. That's not because Decoder Ring's latest work sonically mirrors Pink Floyd's 1973 classic but it does have some resonance for keyboardist-guitarist Matt Fitzgerald. 'It's the first thing I ever heard,' says the 33-year-old, recalling his maiden trip to the dark side. 'My earliest musical memory is my father putting headphones on me and [hearing] the song On the Run with all those synthesiser sounds. When I heard that, I had a whole visual picture explode in front of me. Since then, music's always been about music and vision, which ties into what Decoder Ring try and do.'

Feb 10, 2012 Artist: Decoder Ring Album: Fractions Year: 2005. Mix - Decoder Ring - Fractions YouTube; Decoder Ring - Shining Path - Duration: 5:19. Lyrics to Decoder Ring Fractions: Fall divide, Where we lie Ride with the night Never meant to be alone in the wild Never mind and fall asleep for a while Call you.

Fitzgerald isn't simply referring to Decoder Ring's award-winning 2004 soundtrack for Australian film Somersault, or their ongoing live collaborations with film projectionist Simon K. The band's heady compound of post-rock, dance-electronica and ethereal soundscapes is both musically and 'visually' stimulating. 'The great thing about music is that it provides the bookmarks in your memory to points of time in your life,' Fitzgerald says. '[We applied] that filmic approach from Somersault but on a broader palette, which makes for an exciting spectacle for the album and [in a] live context,' he says. The Dark Side of the Moon sets a high benchmark. Can Fitzgerald listen to his band's output with objectivity? 'It gives you a sense of perspective.