On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Adam J Weitzman wrote:
quoted 6 lines I'm not quite sure I agree with the Bola comparisons. If I had to guess>
> I'm not quite sure I agree with the Bola comparisons. If I had to guess
> who this was, I'd say it was Beaumont Hannant. The sounds seem
> reminiscent of a lot of the sounds he's used on his recordings. Anyone
> else think so?
>
Listen again. Listen more closely.
I totally disagree. Just a few days back I listened through all of my
Hannants. The comparison with Darrell Fitton's material is about a 80-90%
better match than with Hannant's. Though I'm not sure about it, I have to
defend my position that it really is Fitton. As we all know, there's not a
lot of Fitton material around to compare the Shapes to, but I still think
that it is by him. Definitely not by Hannant, the sounds are too smooth
and irregular for Hannant (I should know - I've been a Hannant fan a long
time before I became a Fitton enthusiast). Secondly, on Shapes the
trademark sounds and (sometimes not so) subtle distortion of Hannant are
not present. Even his most gentle tracks have these elements
(e.g. Sym-Phon5 on Tastes & Textures 2 or Ormeau (with Lida Husik)).
On the other hand, a lot of familiar elements Fitton has used before are
quite evident in Shapes. Listen to Blipsalt or Metalurg on AI2, or any of
his Bola releases on Skam (Bola 1 EP, Soup or Triangle Cake 7"). His
tracks on Gescom EP 1 are also very distinguishable. All of these I can
compare with Shapes with ease, and find them very similar.
Of course, now someone comes up with the _real_ person behind the
release and I've made a total fool out of myself being so sure about it,
but hey, that's how life sometimes is. I'd still give it better odds at
being by Fitton than by Hannant.
What happened to Bola's Mauver anyway? I haven't seen it anywhere...
Cheers,
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