Uncivilized Area

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Uncivilized Area | type = Album | artist = The Disco Biscuits | cover =Uncivilized Area.jpg | alt = | released = May 19, 1998 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Groundhog Studios, Holland, Pennsylvania | genre = Trance fusion | length = 71:55 | label = Megaforce Records | producer = Rob Hunter | prev_title = Encephalous Crime | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = They Missed the Perfume | next_year = 2001 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=The Uncivilized Area: The Disco Biscuits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-uncivilized-area-mw0000037111 |website=AllMusic |accessdate=11 July 2020}}</ref> }} '''''Uncivilized Area''''' is an album by the trance fusion band the Disco Biscuits.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50Phz-C_VzIC&dq=Uncivilized+Area+disco+biscuits+1998&pg=PA135|title=Jam Bands 3.0|work=SPIN|first=SPIN Media|last=LLC|date=August 11, 2000|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0d7ach9LFKUC&dq=Uncivilized+Area+disco+biscuits+1998&pg=PA64|title="Jam Bands": North America's Hottest Live Groups, Plus How to Tape and Trade Their Shows|first=Dean|last=Budnick|date=July 11, 1998|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781550223538|via=Google Books}}</ref> It was released in 1998 on Megaforce Records.

The album was among the earliest examples of "trance fusion" or "livetronica," a mixture of electronic music and traditional jam band music.<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AiEx07v-8QC&dq=Uncivilized+Area+disco+biscuits+1998&pg=PA50|title=Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music, & Scene|first=Dean|last=Budnick|date=July 11, 2003|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879307455|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/back_to_the_future_an_oral_history_of_livetronica/|title=Back to the Future: An Oral History of Livetronica|date=April 17, 2014|website=Relix Media}}</ref>

==Critical reception== Dean Budnick, in his book ''Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music, & Scene'', gave the album a 4-star review, calling it "one of the most influential discs within these pages."<ref name="auto"/>

==Track listing==

{{track listing | headline = | extra_column = | all_writing = | title1 = Vassillios | writer1 = Jon Gutwillig | length1 = 6:18

| title2 = Aceetobee | writer2 = Gutwillig | length2 = 10:55

| title3 = Jamillia | writer3 = Marc Brownstein | length3 = 7:39

| title4 = Little Betty Boop | writer4 = Gutwillig | length4 = 15:11

| title5 = M.E.M.P.H.I.S. | writer5 = Brownstein | length5 = 4:59

| title6 = Morph Dusseldorf | writer6 = Brownstein | length6 = 7:56

| title7 = I-Man | writer7 = Gutwillig | length7 = 13:13

| title8 = Awol's Blues | writer8 = Gutwillig | length8 = 5:44 }}

==Personnel== ;The Disco Biscuits * Jon Gutwillig – guitar & vocals * Aron Magner – keys & vocals * Marc Brownstein – bass & vocals * Sam Altman – drums & vocals

;Production * Rob "Wacko" Hunter – producer, engineer, mixer * Jon Zazula – executive producer * Marsha Zazula – executive producer * Gary King – mastering * Jon Lesser – live sound engineer * Kevin "Radar" Cunningham – booklet art & design * Layout – Sam Altman * Layout – Ian R. Brand

==References== {{reflist}}

Category:1998 albums Category:Disco Biscuits albums