Damn, here we go agian. I thought Blueprints was spot-on.
Heavy, underproduced, squonky, melodic. Electron was bitchin' as well.
Simon Hartley went on to concoct the fine "Feedback" ep on FNAC, which I
also felt good about.
Nightmares on Wax are due any day with "Smokers Delight", the US
domestic version of which is much anticipated among the masses. I
thought a word of science was pretty good, though it had debatable
moments ("Mega Donutz"), but tracks like "A Case Of Funk" worked it
fine. This was, imo, about as much fun as you could have mixing
bleepstyle dance tunes with funk. A unique LP, any way you look at it.
LFO are soon to have a full length out, and remixes from the
Sabres of Paradises "Haunted Dancehall" are due any day. (Remixes of Tow
Truck, if memory serves me, which it often don't)
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Cameron psu00110@odin.cc.pdx.edu Blacksmith on the anvil in your ear
Electronica for the Jaded and Discerning
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On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Harvey Thornburg wrote:
quoted 15 lines "Blueprints" by Wildplanet is pretty unlistenable amateurish stuff.> "Blueprints" by Wildplanet is pretty unlistenable amateurish stuff.
> Granted, they pretty much secured a Warp deal with the LFO-esque "Electron"
> single (the only remotely-good track they've done), but everything else on
> that album is unlistenable. For _oddest_ Warp release I'd nominate
> Nightmares on Wax "Word of Science". Someone described this as a
> combination of Cabaret Voltaire and De La Soul (I guess the best parts) and
> they're probably right, and this stuff really works! Yet I guess we haven't
> heard from them for about three years, wonder where they disappeared to...
>
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