At 07:41 PM 7/11/2002 -0700, michael goodfellow wrote:
quoted 14 lines this past january a friend gave me a burned copy of an>this past january a friend gave me a burned copy of an
>album called "iii" (as in "three") by the idm group
>"download".
>
>the album's probably about 40 minutes long-mostly
>ambient with some drums, and a really organic sample
>of a woman's voice at one point repeating "who was i?"
>as it receeds out of hearing
>
>i heard one guy from skinny puppy was in the group-and
>that the name of the group and the album were designed
>so that the tracks could not be easily acquired over
>p2p networks-but my friend presented the whole thing
>on a cdr to me as some kind of achievement.
Yeah, it's cevin key's side project. 3 albums, sort of industrially and
tending more towards IDM as they progressed. They're not really an IDM
group, per se, and the album you're speaking of is actually quite old. A
quick search on amazon.com shows the other albums and the release date for
iii is 1997 -- hardly anything "tech" enough to warrant anything difficult
for copiers. Not to mention the lack of p2p networks back then.... It may
be difficult to get over p2p networks because it's 5 yrs old, though...
Anyway, basically a more electronicy industrial side project for some
skinny puppy people with Mark Spybey on the first two albums. I found iii
a little lacking, personally, as it attempted to be "idm" and ended up
being cheese.
However, they really had a good thing going on the album "the eyes of
stanley pain." Grindy, noisey, and very solid, with spybey doing some
wonderful whispery screamy lyrics that blend with the music SO
well. Genesis P. Orridge is on it in a few spots, but meh, skip those
tracks. That and the "sidewinder" EP which accompanies it are probably an
example of some of the best industrial-IDM stuff around, without being too
cliche or boring (like most industrial music).
I normally hate industrial music because it's basically the same 3 bands
that just spin off side projects, but download's middle album there is
quality. Furnace is good but a little too "loose" for most tastes, and iii
and later are weak IMO.
derek
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