Jake Mandell - Love Songs For Machines (carpark)
Did I miss people talking about this record? Why
haven't I read any mention of it here; this is the
best record i've bought all year. Beautiful melodies
and sounds aranged in not-quite-four-on the floor
techno with some rather complex yet accesible rythm
patterns and nice evolutions within tracks. Slight
new-wave edge at times, and a couple nods to kraftwerk
(always a good thing). Seriously, this is essential,
at least IMHO.
kid606 - soccergirl ep
this is quite nice, sounds like the kid was making an
attempt at boards of canada / steve reich style stuff,
but with his own spin on it. a little fuzzed out in a
unique way, with nice melodies with odd time sigs or
timings. nice song titles, if you generally like his
song titles (i do). Not necessarily gonna convince the
haters, but it's definitely on a different tip than
most of his work.
various artists - Clicks And Cuts 2
3 discs! 36 artists! and yet almost all of this could
have been by one person, in that the tracks all work
fairly well together and very few lay outside the
parameters that the majority of the tracks reside in.
From ambient clicks and tones to full blown "click
house", there's a pleasing mix of "intellectual" and
"accessible" tracks here. Obviously I haven't fully
absorbed this material yet, but it's mostly quite
good. The matmos track stuck out a little as actually
sounding like matmos, while, say, the kid606 track
sounds pretty much like the other tracks on the house
side of things. Recommended. it was $20 at other
music, which strikes me as a pretty good deal.
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Well, duh. But I've been listening to this album for
years now, and i heard something NEW on it this week.
About 20 seconds into "Girl-Boy (?18 Snare Rush Mix)"
there is a loop in the background that i've never
heard before. Weird, it's right there, but it's just
registered on my consciousness. This album is still
brilliant and very enjoyable and is a major
inspiration to me. ("...well if RDJ could do this
stuff in 95/96 I should be able to do what i want
now." haha)
part two coming later...
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