quoted 4 lines 1.which one of you got 'from within' (namlook/hawtin). i understand the 12">1.which one of you got 'from within' (namlook/hawtin). i understand the 12"
>might not live up to what we would expect from these two(second hand info).
>the speculation is that the fax cd has more promise. any reviews
>available(will?).
the 12" takes the best tracks (IMO) from the CD but the +8 pressing for one
of the songs is really off center and sounds all warpy. Here's the
original review I wrote back when I got it in March
1 121 13:25 Snake Charmer
2. 12:25 Sad Alliance
3. 29.18 A Million Miles to Earth
4. 111 12:20 Homeward Bound
5. 03:19 Lost
Well they certainly put the best tracks on the +8 record. If you're in the
US, definitely save your money and go for the domestic record. A Million
Miles to Earth builds slowly (with what I think is a 303) and at times
washes you over yet manages to still sound intelligent. Then it gently
drops you off somewhere spacey for several minutes until it builds back up
again. This goes on for close to half an hour! Homeward Bound is thee
intelligent dance record for 1994 so far for me. I'm not so fond of the
sample but at least it's not that frequent - perhaps because it's probably
German which I can't understand - but it's that woman's voice I've heard so
many times on FAX records. This has got a nice shuffley beat, and
everytime it breaks, it'll come back stronger with more and different sound
additions. The production sounds great.
The extra tracks on the CD:
Lost sounds A LOT like something off Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works
II; very minimal & dark. Snake Charmer is a pretty good IDM tune - again
that shuffley ambient feel to it while Sad Alliance is an OK ambient track.
I was kind of worried about this CD. I was never really crazy about Pete
Namlook on his own. His style is rather minimal and spacey. I like
simplicity but I also like variety. With Ritchie Hawtin, I dig his tranced
out dance music. However, if you listen to some of the ambient tracks on
the FUSE album, they just don't seem that interesting to me, especially
"theychx" which goes on for over 13 minutes. On the Plastikman album, only
a couple of the songs that lean towards the ambient side seem like filler
material to me. The good thing though is that my roommate took the risk of
buying it and it turns out to be much better than I expected. I think this
was a really good collaboration for the two of them. It seems like it
brought out the best of both. I hope they work together again.
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