DIGITAL MILLENNIUM : GPR CDC 18 2-CD various artists
Every once in a while something comes out of the blue and hits you
smack bang in the face - it wakes you up, shakes you up and
rearranges your assessment of where music is going. Ooh, maybe I'm
overextending myself here with the superlatives </!> but after just
one listen through disc 1, the only word I can utter is "impressive"
The lineup features Luke Slater / Mark Broom, Plaid / B. Hannant /
Russ Gabriel / Black Dog etc. etc. - 21 tracks in all.
Starting with the bright orange cardboard slipover cover with a logo
of an in utero foetus complete with walkman on its bum and mega
headphones plonked on his large smiling head. Yeh!!
There's something here to appease even the most discerning of
listeners (and the odd track you might want to hurry along) but all
in all it covers a large range of bases and hits the mark as a
current barometer of pre-millennial kick-ass and bliss-out tracks.
Tasty~!
Errr, just as an aside : why do remixes sport these weird names?
Here we are treated to "The easy cheesey mix" (Mark Broom) "Morning
view remix" (Terrace) "Plaid Potatoe Timbale remix" (Plaid). Thank
goodness for Mark Broom's later honest "Remixed Version" mix!
Awright - let me get onto disc 2 :-)
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"Incomplete without surface noise"
- Autechre