Excerpts from mail: 8-Feb-100 (idm) Warnings by AeOtaku@aol.com
quoted 2 lines Aspen: Are You That Retail Snob? CD (Involve)> Aspen: Are You That Retail Snob? CD (Involve)
> Kit Clayton: Repetition and Nonsense CD (Drop Beat)
Whoah there cowboy....
I haven't heard much IDM that I've liked over the last
year or so, but man, I have to give Aspen's latest disc
top billing! It's so wonderful. The opening track is
a bit grating, but after that the rest is the album
is.... gah! Just awesome! Soothing, textured, melodious
rhythms and harmony.... also, I just got the Kit
Clayton record today, and found myself listening to it
seven times straight... nice stuff.
quoted 4 lines to encourage more _INTELLIGENT_, yet critical music> to encourage more _INTELLIGENT_, yet critical music
> discussion on this list. I don't want to name names, but
> I think a lot of the people on here (especially radio show
> types) are afraid to say anything negative about a record...
Eh? Look, it's public knowledge that Pietro is our resident
blabbermouth (a friend of mine and I were kidding that IDM
press releases these days are so eLiTe, especially those
private Suction emails) but you have to take everything on
this list with a grain of salt. In my five years of
subscribing to this list, people's recommendations have led
me to both great records and absolute duds (all those damn
Markant twelve inches come to mind).
Keep in mind that it takes little more than a CD-R and
$500 to start a label..... and there are more than a few
enterprising young fellas out there who have suckered my
greasy cash for 50 minutes of freeware bleeps. And since
Microsoft Word has such a great built-in thesaurus, I'm
positive as more press releases flood in, I'll find myself
buying more.
Aaron
np: Amon Tobin sampler (Ninja Tune)
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