okay, so as much as I like advice about what to buy, I also *very* much
appreciate those "you know I thought this was going to bust bhoomily, but
it's kindof flat" points of view. I mean, we are all familiar with the
phenomena, you're following a name or artist (most often label) and
realize once you get caught up in the careful listening department, that
the last few things they put out turn out to be the least inspired...or at
least missing the sweetspots which turned your ears in their outset.
One recent 2x12" which illustrates that point well is the !K7
Vinyl2000/Electrecord compilation. This tracklist reads out like a
veritable who's who of innovation on the dynamics of floormoving freaked
funk (third electric, artificial material, invisible man, synapse) yet the
conversations here trail off into, dare I say boring areas of
repeticism...leaving me feeling...uneasy.
Chasing the tail of Electrecord faster, I have found their last two
releases crinkling my nose and tightening my eye lids as they serve up:
ER800 - Weatherforcast/Lystorin/Love,Pain,Extasy - Klys-Tron
Three tracks of way minimal drum box and way played out here and there
techno squirts and monotonous synth lines. This record has been found
dangerously close to my "For Sale" pile in recent days.
ER700 - B-Vision/Bonus/Sector 17 - Funktaxi (BolzBolz)
Ok, this is only 1/2 bad which pains achingly in the wake of some wicked
stuff on labels I mentioned on EB and 313 (ie Ersatz Audio) earlier today
(check the forcefield site later for the rebroadcast). Sector 17 suffers
from the same aforementioned way too minimal drum box (where's the beef!)
with not enough guts and too much "cool techno noise" lard filling.
B-Vision perks up the mix a bit with a 303 line and slightly more
progressive programming and a vocoded in tune vocal chiming along with
nice gliding pads. Bonus free jams a bit of tribal weirdness. Okay,
maybe this one is a bit more worth holding onto, and perhaps if it was a
Guidance record or something I would be a whole lot less critical of it.
What was I talking about?
;-)
Teep
NP: a hunk of suction I'm loving next in line for
the doctors umbelical textcut