On Wed, 12 Mar 97, Jeff Birgbauer <jeff@dreamspace.com> wrote:
quoted 5 lines I guess i have to disagree. EAR is truely beautiful spacedout and>I guess i have to disagree. EAR is truely beautiful spacedout and
>f***edup ambient mess. truely great stuff if yer into pure chill!
>
>p.s. I don't care, but.... its hardly IDM, it more a topic for the
>ambient mailing list.
...until now.
EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH & THOMAS K?NER
The K?ner Experiment (Mille Plateaux 36)
We have a deceptive title here... it's even BETTER than that. the credits:
Sonic Boom: EMS VCS3 & Synthi A, Serge Modluar Music System, Guitar, Wind Pipes
Kevin Martin: Saxophone, Wha Wha, Echoes
Eddie Prevost: Bowed Cymbals, Percussion
Kevin Shields: Treated Guitar
so far, so good. pretty much the same story as Big Cat's _Beyond the Pale_.
Spectrum without the rock. Techno Animal/Ice wind-damage without the throttling
beats. AMM without the rest of the noise-wranglers. those transient pieces on
MBV's _Loveless_...
meet:
Thomas K?ner & Andy Mellwig: Rhyhtms & Pulses
it's EAR vs Porter Ricks! :-D
which is the most delicious thought aside from maybe "Gas vs. Porter Ricks".
but that may yet happen.
10 untitled tracks ("pieces") where K?ner and Mellwig (de/re)construct new EAR
material ((c) 1997) by hammering it into pulsating Basic Channel/Chain Reaction
shapes. the original EARphonics are rich with microtonal gradations, a blinding
array of monochrome shades. Porter Ricks' beats appear very simple-minded and
primitive at first, but they're built from bass-soaked rhythmic throbs which
fuse and mutate as they evolve. extremely studied music where it sounds like
nothing was allowed to happen by accident. every centimeter sound graphed,
plotted, calculated, weighed... the inhuman precision hidden in drifts of sound
and the swish and gurgle of the beats. the result? a very unsettled and
unsettling ambience pitted with holes, pockmarked, eroded. the texture of
weathered stone in every imaginable shade of gray. sublime.
so it looks like Porter Ricks' _Biokinetics_ is no longer the album of the year.
the torch is passed. unlikely bedfellows make numbingly brilliant music.
don't miss it. especially you Basic Channel types. and we know you're out there.
GuerillaG2-G4/ gg