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1997-03-12 16:40Jeff BirgbauerKent Williams wrote: >And everything I've heard from EAR sounds like "Metal Machine Music"

From:: Jeff Birgbauer <jeff@dreamspace.com>
To:: idm mailing list <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 12 Mar 97 11:40:15 -0500
Subject:: Re: (idm) EAR and Kevin Shields

Kent Williams wrote:

quoted 3 lines And everything I've heard from EAR sounds like "Metal Machine Music"

>And everything I've heard from EAR sounds like "Metal Machine Music" >for the 90s. It manages to be boring and irritating at the same time, >like living next to a machine shop where they lathe cut metal.

I guess i have to disagree. EAR is truely beautiful spacedout and f***edup ambient mess. truely great stuff if yer into pure chill! p.s. I don't care, but.... its hardly IDM, it more a topic for the ambient mailing list.

1997-03-12 17:06gman2@sprynet.comOn Wed, 12 Mar 97, Jeff Birgbauer <jeff@dreamspace.com> wrote: >I guess i have to disagree

From:: <gman2@sprynet.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:06:43 -0800
Subject:: The Kner Experiment (was: Re: (idm) EAR and Kevin Shields)
Reply to:: Re: (idm) EAR and Kevin Shields

On Wed, 12 Mar 97, Jeff Birgbauer <jeff@dreamspace.com> wrote:

quoted 5 lines I guess i have to disagree. EAR is truely beautiful spacedout and

>I guess i have to disagree. EAR is truely beautiful spacedout and >f***edup ambient mess. truely great stuff if yer into pure chill! > >p.s. I don't care, but.... its hardly IDM, it more a topic for the >ambient mailing list.

...until now. EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH & THOMAS K?NER The K?ner Experiment (Mille Plateaux 36) We have a deceptive title here... it's even BETTER than that. the credits: Sonic Boom: EMS VCS3 & Synthi A, Serge Modluar Music System, Guitar, Wind Pipes Kevin Martin: Saxophone, Wha Wha, Echoes Eddie Prevost: Bowed Cymbals, Percussion Kevin Shields: Treated Guitar so far, so good. pretty much the same story as Big Cat's _Beyond the Pale_. Spectrum without the rock. Techno Animal/Ice wind-damage without the throttling beats. AMM without the rest of the noise-wranglers. those transient pieces on MBV's _Loveless_... meet: Thomas K?ner & Andy Mellwig: Rhyhtms & Pulses it's EAR vs Porter Ricks! :-D which is the most delicious thought aside from maybe "Gas vs. Porter Ricks". but that may yet happen. 10 untitled tracks ("pieces") where K?ner and Mellwig (de/re)construct new EAR material ((c) 1997) by hammering it into pulsating Basic Channel/Chain Reaction shapes. the original EARphonics are rich with microtonal gradations, a blinding array of monochrome shades. Porter Ricks' beats appear very simple-minded and primitive at first, but they're built from bass-soaked rhythmic throbs which fuse and mutate as they evolve. extremely studied music where it sounds like nothing was allowed to happen by accident. every centimeter sound graphed, plotted, calculated, weighed... the inhuman precision hidden in drifts of sound and the swish and gurgle of the beats. the result? a very unsettled and unsettling ambience pitted with holes, pockmarked, eroded. the texture of weathered stone in every imaginable shade of gray. sublime. so it looks like Porter Ricks' _Biokinetics_ is no longer the album of the year. the torch is passed. unlikely bedfellows make numbingly brilliant music. don't miss it. especially you Basic Channel types. and we know you're out there. GuerillaG2-G4/ gg

The Kner Experiment (was: Re: (idm) EAR and Kevin Shields)