quoted 1 line Has anyone heard of this?
>Has anyone heard of this?
Absolutement! I reviewed it on the 313 list (I'll post the review at the
conclusion of this reply).
quoted 1 line Does this artist have a full length album out?
>Does this artist have a full length album out?
No, but if the artist behind this most recent Direct Beat is who I suspect
(Mad Mike) then he's got more then an albums worth of work out and about.
X2 (x-squared) at present is only on 12" (and on mixed tapes ;-) and
available via Submerge, who IMO run a very tight ship in the sea of
internet mailorder.
quoted 1 line Cd?
>Cd?
You might peruse their (submerge) web site for compilation discs of that
same "x2" nature. Someone help me out with the name of that recent
electrostylee comp! Kent?
Teep
on now: soul oddity<--astralwerks on the bug in the miami BASS bin tip
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96
From: (Mushmouth)
To: 313@hyperreal.com
Subject: (313) The Uvex Bassgoggle Vs Low End Shades
Inspired by the 12" Electric Soul . X2 and the "put up don't shut up"
(and this is AINT no suck up) train of thought.
The Uvex Bassgoggle Vs Low End Shades by Mushmouth
With an abrupt awakening by a bad taste in your mouth, you realize that
yet again, a drunkbass spending spree has brought the 'Electro-Ho' into
your bedroom. Your "revival" hangover kicks in full-time as you take
notice of the BIG ASS (thank you super freeke ;-) pair of Uvex Bass-
goggles on your Technics nite table. Damn those are silly. But "rock
the house! '' sounded oh so fine last night!
Still, you lament, light up and pull out your shame hiding sunglasses
(in one sentence) from beneath your home computer. Hit the PPPtimer and
the modem generation national anthem plays out.....another connection.
Ahhh I feel better already. Nothing takes your mind off misfortune
faster then a quick trip on the links and almost instinctively (that
and the fact you made
http://www.submerge.com your browsers "home")
you arrive at the pirate's ship's slip in search of a redemption song.
http://ftp.msen.com/~submerge/Soundbits/PirateBYTES/x2.AIFF
Those Uvex are history right about now as the unmistakable Mad Mike
voice over alerts "X2 I'll CU there in the night....". Mmm, what's that
sound...spy vs spy techno electro love? I need that. With a click of
your finger and a clack on the keyboard, the Submariner confirms,
"you're gonna get yours". Two days later you greet a turn of the PO Box
key with delight and bring a beaming yellow "package too large" slip up
to the counter to make the final transaction that brings the electric
soul into your hands.
In a cinematic moment as climatic as OB-1 finally catching the entire
Princess Leah hologram as projected by R2, you drop the needle and steal
off into a Low End Shade State of mind. "We'll meet undercover....no
one else will know." Instantly, cliches like "ROCK THE HOUSE" spring
from premature tombstones to reclaim their sacred status quo. Christ-
sakes, that shit used to MEAN something before big business took
the house party from the homes of America if you know what I mean.
Really, to me what makes 'electro' (I guess this goes for our entire
electronic genre) alluring first and foremost is the homegrown bravado
intangible that speaks out in phrases of oozing coolness, which
confirms, people who know the difference, notice the difference.
aran@mit.edu po box 581 cambridge,ma 02142 USA