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quoted 5 lines i'd hardly call it a hidden track. more like

>i'd hardly call it a hidden track. more like >"hidden fucking-around-for-a-minute-and-a-half" >really a waste of time, if you ask me. my only >complaint about the album. the third track is, >to quote vanilla ice, "mind blowin'".

I think it nicely sets up the sounds and effects brought into play in track one (acroyear) which follows directly afterwards if you have your cd-player looping. I've only listened to the extra bit once so far but that's what I remember thinking at the time anyway. By the way, on top of the excellent BoC session on John Peel last night he also played an interesting downish-tempo Gescom track too which I also taped but didn't hear the title of - can anybody enlighten me? Finally, as regards prices, I spent half an hour wandering around both the major and independent record shops in Leeds not finding the new Ae cd for less than GBP14.99 (HMV was 15.99 too! Yet they are selling Wap100 for GBP9.99?!) so I ended up mail ordering via Warpnet for GBP12 despite the fact I live less than an hour away from Sheffield. I think I'm beginning to see why record shops may start to go bust rather shortly....... Cheers, Jonny

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quoted 3 lines by the fourth listen i started to make out some melodies out of it, so i

> by the fourth listen i started to make out some melodies out of it, so i > suppose your brain (especially mine) has to adapt itself to the music.... > maybe ae have come up with the first record to be to advanced for humans?

melody is second only to lyrics in the qualities that many listeners require of music to identify it as being Actual Music. Those aren't the only things going on in there, though, especially with a lot of the distorto/white-noise cop-out artists (skam/schematic/vvm/etc..) and increasingly, autechre. incidentally, i've noticed that there's a relation to the amount of obliteration going on in a track to the usage of super-clear tones for the melodies in those pieces (among synth-oriented bands...samplers like bisk sidestep this relation). it's like the melody sounds are simplified as they take a backseat. whoops, lost my point in there somewhere.. eric onnow: bola : aguilla (skam)