Since Linux doesn't feel like letting me cut and paste at the moment:
The Clifford Gilberto disc is pretty much crap. Seriously self-indulgent
smooth jazz esque bass wanking, dull loungy uninspired melodies, and some
spastic percussion a la squarepusher. An obvious desire to sound jazzy
that just is not working. At all. I liked tracks 1 and 7 and the last
one, but the rest was complete throwaway material.
Plastikman - Artifakts: not as good as Consumed... or rather, not as
consistent. More like "normal" Plastikman, but incredibly loopy (even for
Hawtin). "Pakard" is an amazing track, and there's one other nice one,
but the rest, while not that bad, were just kind of dull - I was never
really pulled into the repetition and thus it didn't really work.
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