quoted 11 lines _Louis' Cry_ on F Communications. I've probably got some> _Louis' Cry_ on F Communications. I've probably got some
> of the facts wrong but from what I've been told, Juan Trip sampled a
> baby crying for a record but the baby died a week or so later from
> choking on a sweet. The record itself is amazing as it starts out
> with quite a fractured housey loop - however, it soon comes together
> and and a beat drops in quite nicely. Just when you're settled
> though, there is a small breakdown preparing you for the beat
> thats (inevitably) about to come back in - it does but accompanied by
> the *loudest* distorted baby crying - it's horrifc and I love
> it. Apparently, DJs refused to play it, mixed out before the crying
> and also asked F Comms for a remix 12" without the crying. Lightweights.
that record is really an endurance test. every time i've heard it out i've
had to excuse myself from the dance floor. i can take power drills,
fingernails on a blackboard, and the fucking blue angels buzzing my house for
an entire weekend, but that record is like pouring battery acid in your ear
canals. physically painful to listen to.
-j-