On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:08:19 -0800 (PST) David Mcpherson
<generentropy@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 16 lines --- "Alan R. Lockett" <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>>
> --- "Alan R. Lockett" <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Agreed on the merits of the Push EP. Wish a bit more
> > of 'Serial Hodgepodge' had
> > been in this vein (but then its Hodgepodge status
> > would have been compromised).
> > 'Sustain' was another excellent EP. Haven't heard
> > the 'Flat' EP; anyone got any
> > compare/contrast evaluative comments?
>
> I haven't heard the "Push" ep, I have the "Flat"
> remixes ep and I like a couple of the tracks, the
> others seem a little "FFFlat"...but it's a remix album
> so that could be someone elses fault.
Well, I've managed to d/l a track off 'Flat' and it's a deeply unpleasant
remix by Matthew Dear, whose work I'm unfamiliar with but who seems
to have been getting Big-upped around these parts quite a bit. If this is
representative, er.... why?
Dunno who else remixed the flat Flats, but if it's remix EP of Lusine stuff,
then it ain't Lusine for me.
quoted 13 lines Also I really liked his first s/t album (as L'usine)> > Also I really liked his first s/t album (as L'usine)
> > released on Isophlux in
> > 1999, but the production was flat, boxy and
> > one-dimensional. Weird, in view of
> > the attention paid to production and spatiality on
> > later Lusine (icl) stuff.
>
> Ah, that album is the shit! I actually like it alot
> more than the material after that, the more "IDM"
> sounding stuff. And I don't feel like the production
> was off, maybe a little more emphasis on the low end,
> thats a good thing in my book. Definitley more factory
> sounding stuff though. But to each there own...
Indeed. It was partly the low-end vagueness that bothered me. I guess the lo-fi
home-made factory-produced element might appeal (and - trainspotting linguistic
note - 'Lusine' actually means 'factory' in French. Oooh.), but if one was
looking for something of the high- and low-end resolution and clarity of, say,
Bola, BoC, or Arovane (which personally I was), then 'L'usine' (Ispohlux.1999)
would disappoint. Otherwise it's a fine album, I agree.
alan
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