kelly asked what plod sounded like, which reminded me i should
translate the review i wrote on pillow talk... here's the quick&dirty
swedish->english translation:
plod
"pillow talk"
worm interface/ruc
aah. beautiful. intro-track "markkinal" sets the tone for the rest of
pillow talk, nice melodies and pleasant electronic rhythms. it's
almost as if plod has taken BoC's feel for wonderful melodies and put
it together with early autechre's sense for genius loops and beats.
that is of course not overly innovative, but the point with pillow
talk is rather that plod are loving caretakers of a musical
inheritance. the case being that BoC's records are few and far
between, and autechre isn't at all making the same kind of music they
did when garbage ep and tri repetae were released. plod fills an
empty space, and they do it well. sure the album contains some filler
tracks, but masterpieces like "om man blås dom i nosa så nys dom" and
"ass.mp3" makes everything allright. warmly recommended.
scanner vs dj spooky
"the quick and the dead"
sulphur/import
I've always wondered a bit about collaborations between different
electronic artists. how does it work? with musicians on traditional
instruments it's rather obvious - if a guitarist and a drummer
collaborates, probably one of them plays guitar and the other drums.
but two electronic musicians? one of them programmes the sampler and
the other... programmes the sampler?
anyway. robin rimbaud plan to release a serier of these kinds
of collaborations. first in the meld series is himself and new york
producer/philosopher dj spooky with the somewhat distraught and only
38 minutes long "the quick and the dead". (whaddaya mean, ONLY 38
mins? once upon a time all albums were that lenght. oh well. who
cares.) a lot of the record bears scanner's clear mark - dark
soundscapes that like to create a uneasy feeling, samples of
unidentified sounds and voices that dissapear in a swamp of echoes
and effects. also present is scanner's new found (?) interest in
classical instuments and classical music, compare last years
masterpiece lauwarm instumentals. which is especially apparent on the
records best track, "guanxi", where a classically schooled guitar
meets a distinct triphop-beat. here's where i imagine dj spooky
enters the picture, carrying a case full of hiphop influences. two
more of the albums 13 tracks have a rhythm-based structure,
"Heterotpian" and "Uncanny", of which the later as well as the hiphop
beat also cuts to pieces some typical but funny rap lines like
"listen up, it's time to get ill!" and " break it down like dis!"
on the whole, "the quick and the dead" is a nice record, with
a strong case of "middle-album" - it'll do while we wait for each
artists' next "real" album.
hs
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