On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Thomas Millar wrote:
quoted 2 lines For other more 'cerebral' stuff there's, well, quite a bit. Alec was on> For other more 'cerebral' stuff there's, well, quite a bit. Alec was on
> Mille Plateaux for quite a while before he went and got his own imprint.
Yup- in the last Time Out NY, he was dissing on their current roster as
being too obsessed with the latest gear.
quoted 5 lines For my taste I prefer "Generation Star Wars" and "Limited Editions> For my taste I prefer "Generation Star Wars" and "Limited Editions
> 1990-94" which is pretty forward in its own right. "Hypermodern Jazz"
> and the "Iceland Sessions" are OK but not particularly super in my book-
> both are kind of concept records, ventures into fruity electronic jazz
> and slow, pan sonicesque minimalism, respectively.
All four are pretty excellent- Hypermodern Jazz was exactly how I always
hoped "acid jazz" would sound like- n degrees of loopiness in programming
with feeling "jokey" a la Senor Coconut (of course, this is not at all
what acid jazz aspires to, but in terms of semantics...). Ltd Editions is
melodic, slightly downtempo techno which wouldn't sound out of place on
the AI comp. Iceland Sessions is certainly the most minimal (though much
too cavernous in feel to remind me of the blistering Panasonic). GSW is
sort of a weird triangulation of all of his aesthetics and very lovely
as well.
His final record for MP was "Les Etoiles des Filles Mortes" or some such-
he claimed it to be Stockhausen influenced and it's definitely the most
abstract of the releases.
-rob
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