don't get me wrong, i LIKE claro. i own it. good stuff, but compared
to the talent caliber of his label mates (minus a one Mira Calix, but
that's a whole other thread... just look up), he seems out of place.
Considering the hype/exposure he attained vs the quality of music he
writes, i'm in the opinion of feeling he just doesn't belong. For poppy
melodic IDM, Kettel's Smiling Little Cow was INFINITELY sweeter than the
Brothomstates album (but i think claro came out earlier, so that's
unfair, i suppose), and that should have had the Warp exposure.
-mark
sleepy kitty wrote:
quoted 36 lines On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 01:55 AM, Mark wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 01:55 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>> thanks for answering my question.. so why not just drop Calix and
>> Brothomstates and sign Venetian Snares and Marumari? I guess both
>> are doing moderately well, but both could greatly benefit from being
>> lifted up to the stature Warp holds nowadays.
>> -mark
>
>
> yikes, drop brothomstates? i dunno about the rest of the list, but i
> think brothomstates is incredibly great stuff, and i'm kind of
> surprised to hear people talking about him as if he should be dropped
> from the label. claro, i'll agree, wasn't very strong at all, but i
> enjoyed qtio immensely.. there's also a wealth of material floating
> about the internet that he released before he was signed anywhere (he
> used to be fairly well involved in the pc demo scene as dune of
> orange) that i think is quite great and shows a good bit of talent.
> claro is a hard listen, but it's there if you give it time (i was
> never into it at all until i saw him play live, which sort of gave me
> reason to listen to it further). before you say he sucks, listen to
> his track on machine drum's remix album and the middle part of the
> live set on www.defaultresponse.com (the url for the set is
> http://www.enoughrecords.com/default/default_-_brothomstates.mp3).
>
> so after that long ramble, my point: do people here agree with mark
> for the most part, that brothomstates is overall not that great, or is
> this just the opinion of one man? i think he's one of the more
> exciting things i've heard in the field of electronic music in a long
> time, and i'm shocked to find people not agreeing.
>
>
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