Sasja said:
quoted 6 lines All I can say that the Atari Teenage Riot gig was quite an experience, sure> All I can say that the Atari Teenage Riot gig was quite an experience, sure
> it was really chaotic and they were shouting lyrics over it which you
> couldn't understand, still Alec Empire's "The Destroyer" is one of my fave
> records from this year ... Call me strange ... Guess I'm the only one who
> doesn't understand why everybody is talking about Squarepusher and almost
> nobody seems to like Empire's stuff.
I dunno, aside from mutated "amen" jungle breaks, I see little in common
with Squarepusher material. "The Destroyer" doesn't really come close
to the programming finesse exhibited on Tom Jenkinson's releases; it's
really too sloppy for comparison, and is imbued with much more of a punk
spirit than the d&b jazz of 'Feed Me Weird Things' or some of the other
SP 12"s. The closest SP analogue is the 'Peace Nail' track on Dragon
Disc 2, and even that is much more structured, as tortured and FXed as
the breaks might be...
GD