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just got this today, and it's very nice, if a bit short, but then it is an ep after all... 1. Iambic 5 Poetry 2. Fly Street 3. The Tide 4. Splask 5. Two Bass Hit (dub) 6. Varkatope 7. Gong Acid very similar to _Music Is..._, of course, but some extremely nice melodies shine on a few tracks. I'll post a detailed review sometime soon. mikebee ::mikebee@sirius.com ::21st Century Soul

Mikebee wrote:

quoted 2 lines very similar to _Music Is..._, of course, but some extremely nice melodies

> very similar to _Music Is..._, of course, but some extremely nice melodies > shine on a few tracks. I'll post a detailed review sometime soon.

It's more of a "foreground" record than "Rotted", I think -- he's made an effort to integrate elements of his earlier breaks n' melody driven sound into the looser hand-played structures he's been using lately. -d.w.

fwiw, that review is pretty darn accurate. after 'music is rotted' squarepusher said, and i quote, 'i don't reckon i'll use a sequencer again.' so don't go looking for zippy breaks. murky slush, if you want a different metaphor. nils

hiya~ i just noticed the warpnet page for squarepusher's new mini-album is up. it's a nifty shockwave page with all tracks in realaudio (as always). check: http://www.warprecords.com/warp/ography/lp/WARP62/ the background loop is nice too :0 [could be one of tracks tho', i haven't listened to all of them yet] ~peter name [~] peter cozijn e-mail [~] pu@dds.nl habitation [~] lisse, the netherlands liusna [~] http://huizen.dds.nl/~pu/liusna

At 01:36 PM 2/26/99 +0000, nils wrote:

quoted 3 lines fwiw, that review is pretty darn accurate.

>fwiw, that review is pretty darn accurate. > >after 'music is rotted' squarepusher said, and i quote, 'i don't reckon

i'll use a sequencer again.' so don't go looking for zippy breaks. The bastard! Che

At 12:17 2-03-99 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 4 lines fwiw, that review is pretty darn accurate.

>>fwiw, that review is pretty darn accurate. >>after 'music is rotted' squarepusher said, and i quote, 'i don't reckon >i'll use a sequencer again.' so don't go looking for zippy breaks. >The bastard!

well i really don't think so :) - i got the cd in the mail last saturday and i've been playing over and over it since. there's 3 or 4 brilliant tracks on it. fly street and varkatope are both in-between his 'old' d&b and 'new' jazz styles, with some really nice combinations of sounds. the first track is nice too, but hasn't got much to do with the rest of the lp. plus you can hear the first efforts of tom's gamelan orchestra in two of the tracks - what else could you possibly want? by far the best sqp release in quite a while imo! np: andrew weatherall mix from warpnet - which is kinda nice indeed :) name [~] peter cozijn e-mail [~] pu@dds.nl habitation [~] lisse, the netherlands liusna [~] http://huizen.dds.nl/~pu/liusna

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Marc 3 Poirier wrote: | > plus you can hear the first efforts of tom's gamelan orchestra in two | > of the tracks | What is a gamelan orchestra? An Indonesian percussion orchestra. Lots of bell-like sounds, tuned fairly close to intervals on a tempered scale, but not quite. Gamelan is the traditional dance music of Indonesia. Strangely, I found the feel of Oval's 'Systemisch' a bit similar to some of the slower passages in gamelan stuff... I can't really justify it, except for the rhythms being hard to follow, and the quite harmonically simple, clear tones. Michael ____________________________________________ "His eyes are TV cameras" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html