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Have any of you picked up the Boredoms mix cd's that are out? Both are import, one is mixed by Ken Ishi, the other is by UNKLE (Mo Wax's head honcho), and have the potential to be great. Picked up the Boredoms most recent cd and while it isnt exactly techno, it's certainly comes close. P __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 9 lines Have any of you picked up

>Have any of you picked up >the Boredoms mix cd's that are >out? Both are import, one is >mixed by Ken Ishi, the other is >by UNKLE (Mo Wax's head honcho), >and have the potential to be great. >Picked up the Boredoms most recent >cd and while it isnt exactly techno, >it's certainly comes close.

I definetly want to know this too! I have almost everything Eye Yamataka has ever done, and while I like to stay on top of things, these CDs are ridiculously priced! The only place I've found them at is forcedexposure.com, and they cost $34 US each. All of the other crazy japanese imports I want there are only $22, which is somewhat more fair becaues CDs are costly in Japan. (expect for the Vision Creation New Sun box set, which is like $90... :)) Colin. CPI - experimental noise at http://www.mp3.com/cpi/ DXM - abstract ambient at http://www.mp3s.com/dxm1/ ......and of course... http://www.mp3.com/AwkwardBehaviour "Wouldn't you say, Pooh?" / "Say what?" asked Pooh, opening his eyes. / "Music and Living-" / "The same thing," said Pooh. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

for all your mowax, unkle, lavelle needs, visit www.stupidfish.free-online.co.uk it even has a nice picture of the boredoms mix cd that unkle mixed (for the tenuous on-topic continuation of this thread). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

quoted 9 lines Have any of you picked up

>Have any of you picked up >the Boredoms mix cd's that are >out? Both are import, one is >mixed by Ken Ishi, the other is >by UNKLE (Mo Wax's head honcho), >and have the potential to be great. >Picked up the Boredoms most recent >cd and while it isnt exactly techno, >it's certainly comes close.

Below's a review that I wrote of the Rebore 2. One 50-minute amalgam of Eye screams, pounding thruster drums, eeps and oops, gulps and guffaws, dirge-like asides, revelatory whirlwind whispers and contained chaos, Rebore 2 is both an experiment and a leap of faith: The Boredoms, Japanese band, turn over a decade's worth of their master tapes to Ken Ishii, techno producer, and ask him to do with the music what he wants. Ahh, sweet freedom. The Boredoms are Japanese freaks -- about a half-dozen of them, fronted by a man named Eye -- who, over the past decade, have transformed themselves from Dada minutemen intent on simultaneously destroying and reimagining the idea of song by filling each module of silence with bursts of seemingly random guitars, drums, basses and yelps and into focused mantra-kings intent on stretching one singular idea until it snaps. Ishii is one of the most respected techno producers in the world and one of the first from Japan to make an impact in the early '90s by releasing landmark recordings (as Utu and Flare) on the great R&S and Plus Eight labels. His music on these early records is beautiful and seamless, filled with beats and melody so engaging and complex that with each listen arrives a different theory on its intentions; at one point you think it's head music, at the next it's body music. The beauty lies in his ability to create both simultaneously. On Rebore 2 (Rebore 1 was the product of a similar collaboration between U.N.K.L.E. and the Boredoms), Ishii tackles the music of the Boredoms the right way: by relying solely on their sounds instead of creating his own beats and textures and weaving the Boredoms into it. The result is a scrap-heap symphony, a continual mix of Bore bits pasted together. It rolls and skids, burns out and does doughnuts, all the while retaining a grand momentum that smells of burned rubber and gasoline. Snare rolls last for minutes at a time, bass drums pound until they're burrowed deep inside your skull and teensy-weensy eeps and squeaks give way to the glorious refrain of "Vision, Creation, Newsun!" which gives way to a rumble and an equally euphoric Dada shout-out of "Super roots, yeah yeah yeah!" Rebore sounds more like the Boredoms than it does Ishii; techno devotees will be disappointed with the sound of Ishii here, because he doesn't sound all synthetic. But screw them, because, like all geeks only devoted to a specific piece of the larger puzzle, their eardrums are deaf to other kinds of beauty. On Rebore 2, Ishii concentrates on another kind of beauty, one that is the result of joy through chaos, the antithesis of the regimented joy through repetition, and though each has its merits, chaos reigns supreme here, just as it should. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org