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>Reply-to: mike@touch.demon.co.uk
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:23:30 +0100
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>From: or<or@touch.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: slump 8
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>Farmers Manual
>fsck
>slump 8 (previously released as Tray 2)
>Barcode No.: 5027803330825
>CD in jewel case + 8pp b/w booklet
>For immediate release...
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>Reviews:
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>"This is the second release by Tray and again we welcome Farmers Manual.
>The first 12" was a weird drum & bass track backed by a likewise weird
>hard-chill track. Indexed with 99 points this is an extension of that 12".
>Weird tracks, owing
>in some ways to d&b as much as it does to industrial music. If I say a lot
>of this sounds fucked, believe me this is truly fucked. The more accessible
>(if that is an appropiate word in this context) are in the beginning of the
>CD, but it gradually grows noiser and weirder throughout. The noisy bits
>and pieces at the end are suitable for random play or looping mode. Again
>fun for home-DJs (as you would be thrown at outof the club if you play this
>on the dance floor) and bedroom composers. Industrial music for the digital
>generation!" VITAL (The Netherlands):
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>"It's perhaps redundant to say that Farmer's Manual, one of the most active
>of the Austrian Mego label's stable of artists, is just a bit off. Mego
>have made an identity campaign out of offness, with snide, off-kilter
>emaciations of electronica raising mistakes and studio tongue-slips to the
>level of technique. While maybe not the weirdest of Mego's artists, Farmers
>Manual have been most fastidious in their attacks on discreet genres,
>roping in electro, techno, ambient, and, with much of fsck, drum'n'bass for
>pissy, dirt-smeared reworkings that have, apparently, never heard the word
>'sacred'."
>Urbansounds (US.net)
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>"Farmers manual is perhaps one of the strangest and most original projects
>to be released in some time. Ultra-
>synthetic sounds and drum 'n' bass rhythms are altered beyond belief,
>creating a hybrid of jungle that at times crosses over to noise. To be
>clear, let me state that while drum & bass influences are there, the album
>is in no way danceable, and it only borders on listenable the first time
>you hear it. Incredibly crazy, Farmers Manual will really appeal to fans
>of experimental mauic more than techno fans. fsck has to be heard to be
>believed. Recommended." ennui (USA):
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>"Further evidence of illegal additions to Vienna's water supply. These Mego
>label stalwarts have created an utterly undanceable drum 'n' bass track for
>new label Tray, an appendage of Ash International, skipping around but
>never entirely losing the plot. Like all the wonderfully baffling Mego
>output, it manages to be both entertaining and completely pointless." The
>Wire (UK)
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>"Innovative drum and bass coupled with a track of electronic loops and
>other inhuman sound sources, all on top
>of grinding, low bass frequencies. Farmers Manual also have a CD and LP out
>on Mego Records - all warmly
>recommended." mécano (UK):
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>via the usual outlets...normal cd price...
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>or 13 osward road london sw17 7ss
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