On Tue, 7 May 1996, James B Gill wrote:
quoted 3 lines -- LARRY HEARD IS THE BOMB! Is "Alien" cool? Because Muzik gave it 5/5> -- LARRY HEARD IS THE BOMB! Is "Alien" cool? Because Muzik gave it 5/5
> or 4/5; anyway, props for loving the old school!
>
The 'Alien' record is my idea of the perfect deep chill record. Lush,
melodic, with a lot of interesting timbres in effect. The last track
is a sort of blunted dub poetry number delivered by someone called "Che"
which, even though the rap (printed in the liner notes) is complete
tripped out nonsense, the delivery and the sound of the words seems
to fit just perfectly.
Way back in the day there was something called 'ambient house' -- 5 a.m.
music with laid back house or hip hop beats and lush melodic soundscapes
(think KLF perhaps). 'Alien' is an update on that style. Perfect
for laying back with the headphones on and drifting off to sleep.
And for the gear dweebs among us, the Korg Wavestation is all over the
place on this one. Not presets, but some cool original programming.
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