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From:
The Amazing Arnold
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Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:41:29 +0200
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Re: (idm) boymerang - muzak of the 90's
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At 08:19 25-06-97 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 19 lines On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Random Junk wrote:>On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Random Junk wrote: > >> just listened to Boymerang - Balance Of The Force and am quite >> underwhelmed. nothing really distinctive about it. it's a competent >> rehash of photek, no-u-turn, bukem, et al. > >I can't disagree more. I found this record to be one of the deepest >things I'd heard in a long time, in that style. Bukem I'd compare >it to, but Bukem tracks seem not as well produced (i.e. super mid-rangey >and no use of stereo) and on the whole boring. > >Photek is nothing like Bukem in my experience, much more jagged and >minimal than Bukem, and more interesting. > >And Boymerang seems to be a polar opposite of the No U Turn style, >which is rough, dark and agressive. > >So that's two data points for you poor punters to work with before >you drop $25 on another import CD. Other opinions?
Boymerang didn't really do it for me either. The best stuf was already released on a 12"... Mind Control is the one! Wait for the J Majik album on Infra Red. That's the real deep shit____________ ¤ Forcefield ¤ http://wwwedu.cs.utwente.nl/~wielen/forcefield