--- "Dmitri L.Melkih" <capitol-d@yandex.ru> wrote:
quoted 11 lines And completely unrelated, I was very happy that
> >And completely unrelated, I was very happy that
> >Matmos and Mouse On Mars ended up hardly being
> >mentioned at all in people's year-end lists,
> >despite having heavily hyped albums this year :P
>
> Oops :) Mouse on Mars "Idiology" is on the 1st place
> in my list. Best album of the year, I guess. Matmos
> is quite good too, IMHO :)
> At least there is much more music, fresh ideas and
> originality than in stereotyped idm stuff (like
> Proem :)))
I won't say anything about the musiscality,
originality and freshness of electroniSka... ;)
Joking aside, it's *ALL* "stereotyped idm stuff" to my
ears. That's why I keep listening! And if I had done
a top ten, it would have probably looked something
like this:
Autechre - Confield
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
MD - Between Gaps
Proem - Among Others
Jake Mandell - Love Songs For Machines
Four Tet - Pause
Matmos - A Chance To Cut...
Machine Drum - Now You Know
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
New Order - Get Ready
Those are the things that stick in my mind, musically,
from 2001. New Order isn't particularly inventive,
original, or fresh, but it's just so damn neat!
I also quite like Fischerspooner, but having only just
gotten into them, I'm not familiar enough to put it in
my 2001 list. Solvent's album was nice but I still
prefer his second.
The Matmos album, I agree it's pretty inventive and
neat, and I do really like it, but for some reason I
just can't listen to it more than once a month or so.
It's too, er, trendy sounding, somehow. To be honest,
seeing them live in NYC with all the chic trend
followers in the room kind of tainted my perception of
them.
The Mouse on Mars album got me into them, as I didn't
like them before, but ultimately it struck me the same
as the new Plaid album - a few really interesting
tracks early on, and then it petered out as the album
went on.
I also liked Twerk's "Now I'm Rendered Useless" on
first listen, but it immediately became repetitive.
I'd love to hear one or two tracks mixed in with other
material in a club setting, but a whole album kind of
grates on me. Same with Weatherall's Hypercity mix of
Force Tracks stuff. I love that little mutation of
the dance gene, but only in small doses, or mixed in
with other stuff, for some reason.
I've been meaning to revisit Vladislav Delay, Fennesz,
and Dntel, as they are so popular around here, but I
haven't had time yet.
I liked Chessie - Overnight, but I liked 310's Dirty
Rope album better... not that that makes any sense.
Finally (aren't you glad! but then I didn't force you
to read this, so screw you), everybody's favorite MTV
hopeful Marumari: um, why do we care about MTV?
Whether or not their little self-contained
vacuum-sealed universe ever collapses in on itself, it
has little relevence to my day-to-day life. Anyway,
Supermogadon was nice and gentle and catchy in places,
but a little too elastic and soupy for my tastes. I
still enjoy that Marumari sound, though!
quoted 2 lines And I do not like quality of sound on Merck
> And I do not like quality of sound on Merck
> releases, by the way.
Fair enough, although I personally think that's a
horrible reason to dislike something. I don't have
audiophile ears, so I can't hear what's "wrong", but
I've heard this before so I'll just accept that Merck
and other very indie labels must have bad mixing or
something. Whatever, that's not what it's about for
me.
90 END ramble
=====
.Adam
http://www.damek.org/
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