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> animals on wheels: designs and mistakes
> didn't buy it from the store, listened to it tho. not too great.. the
> first few tracks were the most interesting.. the guys job with breakbeats
> is quite nice sometimes but he gets all disjointed, loses the beat, and
> unlike squarepusher who does this same thing, he never makes the beat
> recover. drums sounds were pretty much the same.. on some tracks he
> would turn distortion on heavy. accompanying sounds were usually a loop
> of something cool but it played over and over. don't recommend, but the
> guy has talent. i like his mix on the ussr reconst. a lot
>
hey -- I like AOW for precisely this reason! Every track starts
very innocously, until very subtly the beats get more distorted, sounds
like machines continually speeding up + breaking down. With recent
Squarepusher, even the frenzied stuff on Big Loada you don't get anywhere
near the sense of catastrophe. It takes a few listens to realize AOW
has an entirely different rationale, simultaneously more subtle,
anti-musical and disturbing. Although I was underwhelmed at first this one
*really* grew on me!
So who else does stuff strictly in this vein? Have any of the other
bovinyl artists made it to CD? I heard of a compilation called "spunk
jazz" but I have yet to see it anywhere (reviews anyone?)
--Harvey