I thought Ovuca was fucking excellent! In a way goes back to old skool
Rave but in the braindance style. Looking forward to Ovuca's next album on
'phlex...
Don Pablo.
quoted 56 lines Hullo All,> Hullo All,
>
> I've had my fill of hyperactive drum'n'bass with Bogdan Raczynski's
>output on RePHLeX (which I do like in a very perverse way, although I'm
>not too much of a drum'n'bass fan), so after Ovuca's Lactavent album
>hist new EP, King Stacey was a bit of a disappointment at first. Then, I
>did what I usually do an tried it at 33 1/3 RPM. I was totally blown away,
>at least with Stacey and Eustace. Both are beautiful tracks when played at
>wrong speed, nice crunchy and dirty rhythms, exquisite string layers and
>the vocal samples - excellent. I picked up the record quite a while back
>and didn't give it much though after listening to it at 45 RPM. Today, I
>was going through my new but neglected pile, and decided to give King
>Stacey another chance. I was, as you can see above, pleasantly
>surprised. The tracks (well, Stacey and Eustace) mix well with Gescom,
>Autechre, Beta Bodega, Speedy J (especially Public Energy Number 1) and
>Markant releases, why not with others as well (I tried just the above, I
>will experiment more later).
>
> If someone else has been disappointed with King Stacey, I'd suggest you
>slow it down and give it another chance. Yes, it sort of defeats the
>original idea of the tracks, but I like them that way better.
>
> I have procured all the recent RePHLeX output, and I have to say that
>I'm generally quite disappointed. Like A Tim's Red and Blue Boxing needs
>a lot of work to become at least tolerable, and Bogdan - well, he's
>Bogdan. But I like Thinking of You the most out of the three albums and
>one EP of his on RePHLeX.
>
> I'm waiting anxiously to get my copy of Ensemble's Sketch Proposals and
>the forthcoming Slipper, Ovuca and PP Roy albums - and hoping that RePHLeX
>would become the exceptionally great label it once was (or then I should
>get a sense of humour particular to Braindance).
>
> If you have read this far and have a copy of Cylob's Are We Not Men Who
>Live and Die 7" (RePHLeX CYLOB1) up for sale, please contact me. I have
>the CD but would like to have the 7" version instead (or as well). It's
>sometimes very hard being a completist - I spent a few months hunting down
>Blueprint, Surface and Meta back catalogues but finally prevailed...
>
> Oh, one more thing: I was able to find the first Stasis/Nuron split EP
>on Likemind (LM01) as well, completing my Likemind collection (thanks
>Jamie). Though they date back to 1993, the tracks have not aged one bit,
>making the record a real gem. Especially Stasis's Artifax is one of the
>best IDM (emphasis on D) tracks I've ever heard. And at nearly 8 minutes,
>it is long enough for extended enjoyment.
>
> Cheers,
>--
>nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org
>http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash
>
>
>
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