Just to give another perspective, I f'n love Substrata. Drippy primal,
organic ambient. No slick production techniques/oddball rhythm programming
here.That one track with the string section and the drunk/old Russian
dialogue gets me everytime. I've listened to this record at least once a
week since I bought it last year...
peace
Nate
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 mike@hyperreal.org wrote:
quoted 21 lines WARD Giles wrote:
> WARD Giles wrote:
> > ah.. the 'golden age' of IDM ;-) ..currently enjoying the more ambient
> > tracks on Biosphere's Patashnik album.. whats the more recent Biosphere
> > like?
>
> Substrata is like the more ambient tracks on Patashnik. There don't seem
> to be any drum machines at all, although it's sometimes rhythmic enough
> that you can pick out a tempo in several tracks. Definitely not dance
> music, intelligent or otherwise. You can tell it's Biosphere -- same
> thick, dark yet warm production quality. I like about 50% of it a lot, 30%
> of it a little, and 1 or 2 tracks I could do without. I was lukewarm on
> the whole thing at first, but it grew on me.
>
> - Mike
>
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