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From:
Edward Pond
To:
bzzt robot blrrt
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IDM Mailing List
Date:
05 Jun 96 14:30:16 EDT
Subject:
Re: (idm) Cylob : Industrial Folk Songs
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quoted 11 lines This is very tough and I challenge any of you to pull it off with the>This is very tough and I challenge any of you to pull it off with the >finesse that these releases have. I'm not quite sure I agree about RDJ's >releases doing this though. I feel him much more musical with a gritty >edge. I haven't heard everything though, so I haven't any clue what he's >up to now. I do have Ventolin, however, which is still gritty to me but >still very musical. Paradinas has an uncanny ability to pull off using >sounds which if used by others would sound cheap and campy. Paradinas' >music isn't noisy, it's just bold and dares to incorporate sounds and >styles which everyone else fears or just plain misses. > >Of course this is all my very biased opinion.
...which I would not change a word of for my own opinion. I feel sorry for people who just hear 'cheap' noises for mu-ziq's music and fail to see where he's coming from. This isn't exactly the case as I experienced it but the true meaning behind Mike's work only began to become apparent after 1.5 years listening. -Ed