CiM (in a fine review) wrote:
| Teep : Sewer Sounds 60 mixtape (-)
| A prime-time mixtape from that polyrhythmic Parillo guy. Toxic
| techno ooze on one side and bubbling electro effluent on the
| other, allowing you to pick and mix your toxins. Dropping the
| vinyl only track from _SAW2_ inbetween two electro jams is genius,
| although I can't help thinking that a batch of Drexciyan sewage
| would have seeped in nicely. Aquatic goo -> aran@mit.edu
FYI: The "vinyl only" track from SAW2 is actually available in digital form
on Astralwerks' "Excursions In Ambience * The Third Dimension". I purchased
this for the Steve Fisk track (local Seattle artist), noted with some
reassurance that the Seefeel and FSOL tracks would probably be good, and did
not even notice the Aphex Twin track listed at the very end. You can imagine
my surprise to have accidently completed my collection. By the way, the Mike
Kandel track which preceeds RDJ's #19 is also a brilliant piece of true
ambient which is a fine complement to the SAW2 piece. In fact, when I first
listened to Kandel's "Slow Boat To China," I found that it was impossible to
press the stop button on the CD player - that's how entracing this ambient
piece is.
Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not "correcting" CiM's terminology in
calling this the "vinyl only track from _SAW2_" : it's as good a name as any
for an untitled track!
Since I've already practically started a review of The Third Dimension, I
might as well complete it:
The rest of the album is some of the best ambient. Tracks from Spacetime
Continuum (Jonah Sharp), Grain (Jimmy Johnson), Spectrum (Pete Kember), Air
(Peter Namlook), and Divination (Bill Laswell) are nicely sequed together. I
must say that the FSOL and Fisk tracks break the flow because they are more on
the attention grabbing side of ambient, but they are good tracks nonetheless.
The Spectrum track did not do much for me, but neither did the Fisk track
live up to my expectations.
Excursions In Ambience * The Third Dimension (Astralwerks ASW 6199-2)
P.S. Does anyone know if the Jimmy Johnson of Grain is the same as the bass
player with Allan Holdsworth and Chad Wackerman releases? There is some
really nice, deep bass on that Grain track...
Brian Willoughby