quoted 6 lines I remember how confusing "Body and Soul"'s funky minimalism was when it> I remember how confusing "Body and Soul"'s funky minimalism was when it
> first came out, especially after the lush and rather poppy "Groovy, Laidback
> and Nasty", but in retrospect it was a rather historic album. Kirk's sense
> of rhythm is just awesome. P.S. - this is full-on idm territory, not some
> loser Industro-head waxing about yesteryear's glory days (although I do
> wonder about that sometimes :-)
Well, if you were a "loser Industro-head" you'd be mumbling like me that you
and Jon and everyone else has lost their minds! I dropped Cab Vol like a hot
potato after "Microphonies" since (from a purist Industro-head's perspective)
they'd *clearly* lost their original way and were making lame lukewarm
non-Industrial and-damn-Mal's-actually-*singing*-now-blecch fodder.
(Hey, that's what I thought back in '85-'86, so sue me ... plus, at that point
I was finding what Chakk and Hula were doing to be more interesting than the
Cabs' direction at that juncture.)
I suppose the last 6-7 years of Techno immersion would probably have me
revisit such a decision (heck, I've never even *heard* "Groovy ... "), but
you might have seen things differently if you were a Cab Volt fanatic from
day one ...
(I was lucky enough to have seen CV Edition 1 back on October 20, 1980 with
Young Marble Giants and L.A.'s Monitor. I'd just come off of having had
acute tonsilitis and was loaded to the gills on Percodans and ganja.
Now *that* was an interesting way to see a gig (-: )
Erm ... anyway, since Jon started this "ROOTS OF IDM" thing ... I'll toss
out a couple more:
John Foxx "Metamatic" (Virgin, 1980)
Liasons Dangereuses [self-titled] (Teldec [Germany], 1982)
I've babbled about both of these before ...
- Greg