In a message dated 2/11/00 10:27:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lance@inaudible.com writes:
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The Future Beat Alliance records are pretty good. It was one
of the many guises of Matthew Puffett used oh his long
defunct Void label. I remember the FBA releases having some
nice melodies but their light breakbeats are what stood out
in my mind giving them a very abstract Black Dog sound.
You might like them but all the releases are vinyl only.
Matthew Puffet was responsible for five of the eight
records on Void (everything not by Yunx or Total
Science) and I think it can be compellingly argued he
was responsible for the best five releases on Void.
His sound is definitely more abstract and less
danceable than Black Dog, Nuron or Spacetime
Continuum (whom I'm listening to right now), and
at times it gets a little too light and airy as Lance
mentioned without enough backing rhythm patterns
or any anchor in the drum kick world, so I wouldn't
consider FBA/Mode-M in the league of the above mentioned
producers but very close. His stuff is definitely for
times when you are mode into concentrating on the
music but I don't think works as well for casual listening
or to blow your friends away.
Wanted to add to what Lance was saying
by noting that there are also Future Beat Alliance
12"s on Archive and Ferox. The one on Archive
is maybe his most developed independent sound
yet and sounds excellent. The one on Ferox has some collab work with
Jason Bruer (horns) which didn't really work for me,
in the same was that Indio or As One's Planetary Folklore
or Innerzone Orchestra didn't work for me - it's decent
stuff, but I much prefer the pure killer techno sound
of all these guys' earlier releases.
There is also a really good FBA track on the
Soulspective compilation (a great compilation in
itself with Ian O'Brien, Paul Mac, etc.)
There is a nice interview with Void label head
Justin Winks at this URL:
http://www.cobaltmagazine.demon.co.uk/Issue5/voidtxt.htm
And if you go to Forcefield and check the reviews
for 08/99 you can hear clips from the two new
FBA releases on Archive and Ferox. Archive appears
to have awful distribution but I would try
mailorder@rushhour.nl for that record or Hardwax.
You can also read my techno hero Marsel's reviews
of the FBA releases at that site. The base
URL is
http://www.sonik.demon.nl/forcefield/forcefield.html
Alas, I tried to pull Lance's old Recoreviews for Void out of the 313
database but it appears to be down. Maybe he can repost them.
Matt
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