and don't forget his work with sand, which incorporates performance art,
improv and multi-media processing. their 2nd album dropped on the soul
jazz label in 2001, and pursues quite a different logic than wright did
w/germ or as tube jerk...stuff for which categorical signifiers have yet
to be invented.
darren bergstein
e|i magazine
www.ei-mag.com
quoted 20 lines hello> hello
> re: the comments about Tube Jerk, i'm surprised no-one has mentioned
> the album "Fold" on iLL records from 1999. this is one of the best
> albums i own; dark, bass heavy beats midway between the more abstract
> Germ and two-steppy tim Wright material. Also there were three singles
> released on the back of the album; an eponymous one, "Daddy's in the
> Basement Digging Gravy", backed with an excellent Surgeon ambient
> remix, and "Eight" with a nice two-steppy Buckfunk 3000 mix. He had
> two albums as Germ on GPR, "Parrot" and another i can't remember the
> title of at the moment, with "Parrot" being the best by a long chalk,
> still well worth tracking down.
> His Sativae stuff is closer to techno than anything else (unsurprising
> given the label) and i actually enjoy it a bit more than his Tim
> Wright stuff. He's done remixes for Goldfrapp, Radioactive Man (as
> mentioned previously) and Cristian Vogel.
> ...and no, i don't work for him or anything :) I just think that he's
> woefully underrated, and draws a very nice line between techno,
> two-step and idm...i think if the Tube Jerk album had been on a bigger
> label and recieved a bit more exposure then he would be a household
> name by now...
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