In a message dated 3/30/00 9:36:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Eddie.Symons@JesterInteractive.com writes:
<<
Being one of the few to have never got any mp3s, cdrs, or whatever of these
releases, anyone want to tell me which bits are worth looking forward (or
backward) to.
Eddie >>
Sorry everyone for the double-post....I was just a bit
taken aback at the sound of money falling out of my
pockets....no more $250 for Mbuki Mvukis....oh well,
it's still really cool the record is coming out
(and my "Scoobs" promo is still worth something). Same
thing happened with my "Hi Scores", didn't auction in
time. Oh well. Music's not about money.
This is an absolutely fantastic track-listing. There appear
to be a couple unreleased tracks, but the lion's share of
the stuff is the Mbuki LP, the Balil 12", the Tura track
on Likethemes, the Tura tracks on Experimenta, the
Atypic stuff on the RSN46 12", etc. This is a 3CD
that is basically filled top to bottom with most of the
best tracks to ever come out of the UK, and while I
haven't heard the unreleased stuff there are almost no
duds on the whole album. Warp is really doing a good
job with this reissue by including all the tracks. TIP!
I would imagine everybody who finally gets to hear most
of this stuff will happily get the chance to see just
how great the scarce early Black Dog related material is
and will get to do it for over three hours with all these tracks.
Worth noting is that they didn't seemingly include a single
track with Ken at all involved in the production. The first three
BDP EP's (which are as good as most of this stuff), the
Balil material on A.R.T. (especially the stuff on the two
A.R.T. CD comps which is just phenomenal) and some of
the old remixes (Black Dog was one of the best remix outfits
around). I guess this is supposed to show just the proto-Plaid
material but I think it is worth noting that Plaid was a subdivision
of Black Dog Productions until the schism in 1995. Oh well.
This is going to be easily the CD reissue of the year unless
Relics or Virtual Sex or the Philosophy of Sound and Machine
gets reissued, this has got to be an essential purchase for anyone.
BTW all the tracks are mostly great, but I'd say "Summit" from Mbuki,
"Rosary Pilots" and "Parasight" from the Balil EP and "Letter"
from Tura are going to be the best of the best.
Matt
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