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From:
Chris Fahey
To:
'IDM'
Date:
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:52:31 -0400
Subject:
(idm) REVIEW: Tranquility Bass
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Review: Tranquility Bass "Let the freak flag fly" Don't pick this shit up. It's cheesy as hell! Although the song "we came in peace" (I think from the MoWax Headz or something) was pretty good, and although this record is on Astralwerks don't let it trick you into buying this crap. This is mostly cheesy 60's pop music mixed with a bit of Bootsy Collins-rip off bass playing mixed with a heap of Arlo Guthrie and corny "be free" and "love each other" folksy dittys/samples. Yuk! I'm returning this shit tomorrow! At best it is a bit like Land of the Loops, but with so much granola-crunching folksy hippy virtuosic gratefuldead stuff to cance out any lushness of the sounds and textures. I shouls have been able to tell by the cover art (looks like a hippy quilt) that it would suck, but I am a free thinking kind of guy, open to the creation of new mixtures of ideas. But this just sucks. -CF