(Chris.Hilker) cspot@hyperreal.com wrote
quoted 8 lines Picked up the December issue of Tower Records' free magazine Pulse, and>Picked up the December issue of Tower Records' free magazine Pulse, and
>the "imports" column is about the best "organic electronic" releases of
>the year. 'Weathered Well,' 'Innerelements', 'Tango n' Vectif,' 'Alien
>Community,' and 'Implant' each rate a paragraph's worth of copy. They
>all received five stars from the reviewer (Paul Ashby), except Mu-Ziq,
>who got four, and Eat Static, who went unrated. Nice to see some of my
>favorites getting mainstream US press. The same issue has a piece on
>Portishead, BTW.
Number 19 responds:
Out here in Nashville, Tower has the game. There's one indie record shoppe,
which I try to buy as much as I can from, but most times what I want can only
be had through Tower. I mail order a whole bunch -- what I cannot buy locally
-- but there ain't nothin' like the physical act of digging through the
crates, searching for vinyl. I got real spoiled when I lived out in Austin,
where you got yer Waterloo, Sound Exchange (right down the Drag from Tower),
et al. and a shitload of incredible resale shoppes too.
The selections available at Tower have grown wider, but the underground stuff
will always be _the_ stuff. Keeping up with what the folks out here have to
say reminds me how much cool music there is being made today.
Peace, 19.