At 04:35 PM 3/29/2000 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 11 lines the new steffan robbers ep on fwd, "sierra romeo," is phenomenal. a
>the new steffan robbers ep on fwd, "sierra romeo," is phenomenal. a
>glorious mixture of spacey circa-'95 idm-y melodic textural gushes and
>peerless, microdimensional, hyperdetailed (but also unbusy) rhythmic
>programming. similar to arovane (who's fwd ep, though not as good as his
>other releases, is also worth getting), a fantastic fusion of analog and
>digital sounds and approaches. best of all, the tracks are *written*. there
>is *progression* -- *themes* that interact and evolve and circle back
>around in various ways. this is what i always wanted all the hype
>surrounding first wave idm artists to lead me to; with the exception of the
>black dog and a few others, i was always disappointed at how mundane that
>stuff turned out to be when i finally heard it.
I wholeheartedly agree with sean about the new Steffan
Robbers ep on FWD. Beautiful stuff from a long overlooked
veteran of melodic detroit-flavored techno/electronica. You
can hear real audio of this entire release on the eevolute/
fwd website:
http://www.eevolute.com/fwd2001.shtml
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