Congratulations, now I'm interested in downloading some of those tracks!
But you were really obvious, Leila, Pole and Monolake are relatively easy to
detect. I don't think that Leila track sounds like Autechre, by the way.
A joke much more funny than that one about the end of Brainwashed ;)
Cesar
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From: Mark Stevens <mark@headspin.clara.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Confield on napster?
quoted 59 lines Here's a reply to the message "Re: [idm] Confield on napster?" written
> Here's a reply to the message "Re: [idm] Confield on napster?" written
> on Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:44:45 -0400 (EDT):
>
> >From what I've been hearing, the longer ones are not real. Actually, I
> >recognize one of those as a Leila track!
>
> I'm going to come clean... I actually created the "fake" Confield
> tracks. Or, to be more accurate, I simply MP3d a few bits and pieces
> of electronica in my collection, choosing ones that could vaguely pass
> for Autechre, and then sit back to watch the fun begin!
>
> Why did I do it? Well, I just knew curiosity would get the better of
> some folks. It appears that quite a few people thought they were
> genuine. I thought people would guess a lot sooner -- the tracks I've
> chosen aren't *too* obscure and most Autechre fans should have some of
> these in their record collection already. And for another reason, I
> wanted to maintain an air of mystery about the album before it's
> release -- with loads of different tracks masquerading as Confield
> tracks, the challenge would be to decide which was real!
>
> Most people I've spoken to on Napster about the fakes (I've actually
> told people as they're downloading) thought it was quite funny. A few
> missed the point and thought I was doing "a bad thing", but I dunno --
> I got some guy interested enough in Arovane to want to buy "Atol
> Scrap" and "Tides".
>
> The "smaller" Confield tracks out there *are* Hrvatski tracks, but I
> did *NOT* upload these. Oddly enough, I checked them out, liked them,
> and now I'm going to be buying some Hravtski stuff ASAP. Everyone's a
> winner.
>
> For those who are interested, here's the tracks I used:
>
> 00-whord (hidden) = david arnold - "doctor who theme"
> 01-vi scose poise (bola remix) = node - "terminus"
> 02-cfern = eu - "loopmind"
> 03-pen expers = leila - "from before...what?"
> 04-sim gishel = arovane - "actel"
> 05-parahelic triangle = susumu yokota - "gekkoh"
> 06-bine = pole - "klettern"
> 07-eidetic casein = monolake - "nucleus"
> 08-uviol = susumu yokota - "kodomotachi"
> 09-lentic catachresis = cristian vogel - "rescate freeformed
> giggles"
>
> Of course, it stands to reason that if you like anything you heard,
> believing it (or not) to be Autechre, then you should run out and buy
> all of the above! Especially the Yokota album, "Sakura". Yum.
>
>
> --
> Mark Stevens
> http://www.headspin.clara.net/
>
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