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From:
auricle
To:
IDM
Date:
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:21:52 -0600 (CST)
Subject:
Re: (idm) Questions About New Buys
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<199602071821.MAA15378@pentagon.io.com>
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CiM writes:
quoted 7 lines Rob Thorley wrote:> >> Rob Thorley wrote: > >> > 3. Is Locust everyone's cup of tea? It sounds a bit too weird for my taste. > > I used to have _Weathered Well_, Mark Van Hoen's first LP on Apollo and > whilst I found it impressive, I rarely used to listen to it because it was > just so dark and cold. _Songs About Love_ or something has this mad distuned > *paranoid* melody looping over it and it used to really unsettle me.
As a coincidence, I'm listening to "Music About Love" now. It makes me think of a nightmare you have with a high fever. Unsettling indeed! _WW_ is better than _Natural Composite_, IMO, but _Truth is Born of Arguments_ is still my favorite. It's "grittier" than the first two; lots of fuzz and distortion mixed with haunting melodies. The first or second track after "Penetration" sounds like his hard disk has exploded and what you hear are the twisted shards and fragments of samples floating by. My cup o' tea, yes. :) --jeff -- auricle@io.com