1. KO -WRECK TECHNIQUE - Ko-wrecktion (Warp) 1999 CDEP
Should I like rap, hip-hop, scratches, etc. more I would be stunned by this
Ep. However, being rather cold to those music streams and techniques I would
comment on it as a good scratch, hip-hop idm for those who are into it. DJ
Craze must have included his stylish scratchy DJ technique over the general
supervision from PBO to produce excellent example of style combination and
experimentation with sound. However, the fantastic remix by Plaid (in his
recent Restproof Clockwork way) makes the whole EP worth buying
nevertheless.
IMHO: 5 of 10
2. FREEFORM - Prowl (Warp) 1996 CDEP
I love the guy. His stuff is absolutely different in each album but still
can be arranged in one concept: freestyle electronic music. Polirhythmic
waves and layers of clicks, blops and other normal idm sounds mix in
absolutely new unexplored directions making it sound different yet just as
involving and stunning. This one is more experimental (in a way of music
intensity) than other releases from him in, more sounds rich and less
ambient.
IMHO: 8 of 10
3. BOLA - Soup (Skam) 1998 CD
I know that many have told their opinions on this one before and can only
add that this is a prefect example of professional slow electronica (idm
ambient) to date. Should be listened in the whole to make proper effect.
Nothing to particulary grab you attention much during listenting yet very
involving and "reality making" (I use this term to describe a music that is
well fit for backgrounds and upon listening evokes a feeling of envelopping
into new layers of reality carring you far away in your daydreaming - very
subjective indeed).
IMHO: 8 of 10
4. DAVID KRISTIAN - "Room Tone" (Alien8) 1999 CD
The most unexplored field of his music for me. Full Kristian flavor dark
ambient soundtracks being his recent obsession. Only the last track sounds
like something from "Beneath the Valley of Modular Synths". Other stuff is
pure low volume analogue dark ambient based on traditional Kristian sound of
cold analogue synths beauty. Fans of dark ambient and devoted fans of
Kristian this is for you.
IMHO: 7 of 10
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