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From:
Brian Willoughby
To:
Christopher Klausmeier
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Date:
Thu, 7 Mar 96 15:12:46 -0800
Subject:
Re: (idm) Excursions in Ambience 3
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| Speaking of Excursions in Ambience 3, is it just me, or does Mike | Kandel's song do weird things to everyone's left speaker? If I | turn the bass up past a certain point the left woofer practically | goes into fibrillation. Nice mellow one. It's not just you - it does have some serious low end. But not any more so than the other CDs I have with sub-bass. You just need a really good amp and speakers. I hadn't noticed that it was the left speaker only, though, because I'm currently running a mono subwoofer. I can still see the fibrillating in the left satellite, even if it isn't as efficient as the sub. | That Fisk song on the CD is perhaps the most grotesque song I've | heard. Not as in bad-ass grotesque a la Coil, just plain | disgusting. That vocal should be taken out and shot. Sorry for | the revulsion, but if I could find that song on the CD and scratch | it out, I would. I agree. I was really hoping to hear some of Steve Fisk's better IDM. I heard him play live as the opening act for negativland, here in Seattle, and he played some very danceable music with a healthy about of bass. One of the pieces even had an anti-Japan-bashing theme to it - at least that's what I got out of his juxtaposition of choice spoken word samples. Since then, I've only found his pure experimental edge stuff on CD, along with the very nice PIGEONHed release, which, while certainly quite excellent, is still not techno. Is anyone aware of any other techno/ambient releases from Steve Fisk? CD or vinyl... Brian Willoughby