Bach sucks. Poppy crap classical. I've heard maybe two pieces he's
written that I can listen to. Beethovan vs Bach? NO comparison.
Mozart vs Bach? Now that's a joke.... oh shit I just pissed myself!
Hell, Wagner had more interesting musical ideas and concepts than Bach,
who I think invented the roots of pop song structure. ugh.
-mark
Brian M. Cass wrote:
quoted 137 lines I would just like to say that as far as my insulsts to Plaid go, this is
> I would just like to say that as far as my insulsts to Plaid go, this is
> my most important evidince: Plaid has never really evolved, they've
> only upped thier production vaulde, in a very limited sense. Compare
> them to Autechre, who have not only upped the production value but who
> have upped the entire idea of what electronic music can be, with every
> single release. Plaid are INDEED A ONE TRICK PONY.
> EVOLUTION IS WHERE ITS AT.
> We have yet to reach levels of Beethoven/Mozart/and dare I mention the
> MASTER's NAME:
>
> JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH.
>
> heres hoping
> kingmob
>
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Thomas Millar wrote:
>
>> Fennesz: Endless Summer
>>
>> Brilliant, like a beautiful, beatless ambient
>>
>> Electric Company: Slow Food
>>
>> which, BTW, is also great, laner's best yet in my opinion, not just
>> because it's the most accessible but also because it's the most
>> consistent of all his work I've been exposed to so far.
>> Then there's
>>
>> Plaid: Double Figure
>>
>> Which is sad, because while it's not a bad record, it certainly seems to
>> show Plaid becoming sort of a one-trick pony band, and I hate when that
>> happens. Rest Proof Clockwork is more inspired and enjoyable for my
>> money by a long shot...
>>
>> Kid606: PS you love me
>>
>> is a good one, album sounds and even looks, colorschemewise, similar to
>> Jake Mandell's recent Love Songs for Computers, which was also a good
>> score. Smooth, almost Kompakt-brand 4/4 in lots of places. I can dig it.
>> I can also dig
>>
>> V/A: All Access
>>
>> fantastic fantastic detroit sampler compiled by Carl Craig, fantastic,
>> oh boy, takin' this one on the road first chance I get, smooth with bite
>> like a fine cocktail, yes indeed, and a Theorem vs. Swayzak track for
>> the rare-collab collector fiends...
>>
>> Bisk: Moonstruck Parade
>>
>> Had this for a while, and just like most every other Bisk album I have,
>> still not the least bit tired of it. Chop chop chop chop, bleep daboop,
>> skittery too-fast OK slowdown WTF billie holiday in one ear and waltzing
>> R2 D2s in the other, gorgeous, full of surprises, and classical piano +
>> guitar samples to make you want to own a house on the beach for some
>> reason. The title track is going down in history, and I'm not kidding,
>> not in the least, nor am I kidding about
>>
>> V/A: RKK 13
>>
>> Which is more hit-and-miss than any comp I've bought in a while, some
>> good tracks, but everything's about 2 min. long tops so you get to
>> relish JayRope, Electric Birds, Blitter and Fennesz's contributions
>> about the same amount of time that you unexpectedly have to suffer
>> through the sound of Thurston Moore chopping through the Ramone's "I
>> wanna be sedated" and bad radio reception noise, which sounds a lot more
>> interesting than it sounds. Sorry Vat, just not open-minded enough I
>> guess, or then again, I am the sort of person who enjoys
>>
>> Fantastic Plastic Machine: Beautiful
>>
>> Lounge disco over-the-top silliness and beats to back the best of blue
>> movies, FPM hits the spot again with another fantastic sunny day driving
>> album, unstoppable and not the least bit self-conscious, even in dense traffic.
>>
>> Herbert: Bodily Functions
>>
>> Around The House was a fine enough record, but if you'd rather more
>> brain-tickling bebop or just regular smoky old jazz inflected stuff, to
>> include the use of more than a few live-sounding musicians etc. Plus
>> even more Dani Siciliano, love that voice, and lyrics that make ten
>> times as much sense as Underworld, not that anybody on this list cares.
>> File under "girl-friendly" but only if she's really smart y'know huh huh.
>>
>> Ken Ishii: Iceblink
>>
>> Boom Boom Boom whatever, not bad but not nearly as good as Metal Blue
>> America, the Grip + Re-grip material, sounds more like an EP with some
>> filler thrown in than an album. A few tight thumping tracks and then
>> some overproduced silliness, you know how it goes, these guys make a
>> bunch of money and it all goes poo before you can sneeze, kind of like
>>
>> V/VM: Help Aphex Twin 1.0 & 2.0
>>
>> Not V/VM, they can't even afford their own source material, I'm talking
>> about Aphex Twin, yeah, the guy that England's favorite meat sculptors
>> have rearranged, smashed, inappropriately appropriated and generally
>> improved upon in favor of lower S/N ratios and sheer aggressive
>> twistedness, which come to think of it nobody might've imagined years
>> ago but now is perfectly acceptable. Or not. Lots of Aphex material
>> reworked into more cacaphonic and unpredictable arrangements, pitchbent
>> all out of wack and cut up so as to make the trainwreckingest DJs
>> worldwide look smooth. I likes it, as I do, finally,
>>
>> Mouse On Mars: Idiology
>>
>> Which when swinging, rocking, thumping, shouting and bumping like a
>> squadron of nymphomaniacal (and/or satyriatic) imps and faeries breaking
>> into a high-dollar studio and ruining it during an all-night orgy, is a
>> great record and again one that definitely fits the bill for
>> incarlistening, at least in my car on the way to see Lex + Devine in LA
>> this weekend, ha ha all you people who'll miss it (I've never gotten to
>> say that, you realize, or even feel it really)... but when they stop and
>> do that thing where dude talks on and on about some post-a-modern
>> con-a-ceptssss, mm hmm, it drives me-a nuts, same as it did on the
>> Gerhard Potuznik album some years ago. At least the Potuznik voiceover
>> bits were a sort of narrative. Anyway. Good record, really like it,
>> except for the Annoyinggg MAnnn.
>>
>> Is that it? I think that's it.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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