IDM Mailing Archive

Bzzzzzt... Delurk On Mon, 23 Jan 1995 21:19:00, Ashok Divakaran said :

quoted 4 lines While we're on a Mills thread, what do people think of Leo

> While we're on a Mills thread, what do people think of Leo > Anibaldi? I understand he is from the same > intelligent-hardcore stable. Ditto for Robert Armani's import > CDs--how do they fare?

Leo Anabaldi's 12" Acid Pop on ACV was probably the one record that had the most influence in attracting me to techno as a music form. I bought it sometime in 88/89-ish, and just from home listening, I knew that it was an all-time classic. However, it wasn't until a fledgling DJ friend of mine (Surgeon from Brum's own House of God - shameless plug!) played it over a PA that I truly appreciated the barely shacked power and savagery of this truly outstanding record. (not savagery as in mental 'ardcore, but savagery as in having the ability to leave you aurally post-traumatic and dazed, but also feeling fundamentally touched or changed in some way). (Sorry if this seems over the top, but my first club experience of Acid Pop made quite an impression on me.) As far as trying to describe it: it is fairly minimal and repetitive, builds in a similar way to Acperience, uses gorgeous fat acidic sounds, and the crescendo, as mentioned above, is rapacious in its intensity I have since donated this record to my DJ mate, and whenever he plays it, it still has the ability to make the crowd go ape-shit. Cheers, Tay. Bzzzzzt...... Relurk