On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Thomas Millar wrote:
quoted 21 lines anyone have suggestions about alec empire's material?
> > anyone have suggestions about alec empire's material?
>
> If you like the ATR sound, go for his albums "The Destroyer" and also
> his first stuff in that vein, "Squeeze The Trigger". "The Destroyer" was
> composed on a bet/dare with a friend, who wanted to see if Alec was up
> to composing an entire album, listenable as such, that was breakbeat
> hardcore, and functions surprisingly well as a complete listen. The
> prototype IMO of the whole DHR sound as a label is to be found here.
> "Squeeze The Trigger" is basically a collection of singles from an
> earlier period and while there's good stuff to be found a lot of it is
> homogenized, 12" one-off stuff and not as well mastered as "Destroyer".
> Plus "Destroyer" takes a lot of the ideas/structures and advances them
> quite a bit.
>
> For other more 'cerebral' stuff there's, well, quite a bit. Alec was on
> Mille Plateaux for quite a while before he went and got his own imprint.
> For my taste I prefer "Generation Star Wars" and "Limited Editions
> 1990-94" which is pretty forward in its own right. "Hypermodern Jazz"
> and the "Iceland Sessions" are OK but not particularly super in my book-
> both are kind of concept records, ventures into fruity electronic jazz
> and slow, pan sonicesque minimalism, respectively.
The first exposure that I had to the breakcore scene was via Alec Empire's
"Destroyer" album which still rates somewhere on my top 10. I really have
liked everything he has done (not counting the ATR stuff) except for one
album that I am not sure if I like or not. "Nintendo Teenage Robots" is
such a painful album to listen to. I appreciated the attempt at doing
something different but it isn't exactly an album that I would put on at a
social gathering. ...Sounds like he figured out what sounds the original
Nintendo gaming machine could produce and ran with it, in a very
interesting way.
quoted 1 line Tom
> Tom
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Jordan Koch
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