Picking up on this days late - I'm another fan of Virtual State - bought it
on prerecorded Warp cassette when it came out - I still find it wonderfully
evocative, resonant, warm - like a sepia tinted photograph of the future
suffused with pathos - ooh - 'scuse me, I'm coming over all cod-poetic.
Thanks for the recommendation of the other Richard Kirk cd - time to save
the pennies - though I did buy 'The Conversation', Cabaret Voltaire's last
recording and was pretty disappointed with it.
All the best,
Colin.
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quoted 50 lines From: "Charles R. Terhune" <chuck0@cfom-music.com>
> From: "Charles R. Terhune" <chuck0@cfom-music.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:51:05 -0400
> To: Mark Stevens <mark@headspin.clara.net>, idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] Richard H Kirk - "Virtual State"
>
>> For no reason in particular, I decided to stick Richard Kirk's
>> "Virtual State" in the CD player tonight for the first time in years.
>> Jeez, I'd forgotten just how good this album is. I have fond memories
>> of driving backwards and forwards between college and home with this,
>> Autechre's "Incunabula", B12's "Electro-Soma" and Black Dog's "Bytes"
>> on constant rotation.
>
> It will always be a favorite. I love this album. So intense. So much
> different form alot of his other stuff, jus tin terms of the sound. Listen
> to it against the electronic eye stuff from the period and you will notice
> it sounds clearer and crisper than the others of that period.
>
> I too, quite accidentally, ended up listening to Dickey H yesterday. I
> fired up my old Honda to get it working again and as I drove it to the shop
> the only thing to listen to in the car was a mix tape I'd made for someone
> on this list ages ago, like 1996 or so, of all his CD's. he only had 6 or 7
> then! but it was great, Just made me get back in touch with what I love and
> why I still make music.
>
>> Lovely, hypnotic melodies and trance-like rhythms, crispy ambience,
>> African music/vocal samples and an atmosphere like no other. I never
>> did get round to buying Kirk's other Warp album. How does that
>> compare? It's a bit hard to tell from the samples on Warpnet.
>
> Someone else mentioned it is similar but I disagree. At the pint he
> made Number of Magic, he was getting out of the ambient stuff and more into
> hardcore and funkier stuff like he does now. The hardcore I could do
> without, although he has done it to great effect on the Loopstatic (SP?)
> record recently. Number is much funkier and grittier than other stuff he's
> done. And he plays guitar on it!!! How cool is that?!?!?
>
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