picked up talvin singh's new thing "ok" at aquarius (aquarius.bianca.com)
w/ the big phat find it was $4! used promo copy, all the same tracks w/
none of the artwork :) sweet.....so here's a small review the album...
more mature sound, more mellow, very orchestrated sound, didn't even hear
many beats in the first few tracks, ethnic w/ out being overbearing,
reminds me of that material song (yes, that one) beautiful lush, if you've
got axiom's "lost in the tranlation" comp, you wouldn't be too far off
not that ambient tho, and more beats to keep ya awake, but in that
flava....you liked the first one? you'll like this one.....if ya didn't
like the first one cuz it was too much dnb, ya might like this one...
richie hawtin's latest and seemingly last plastikman album, the third in
the series starting w/ "sheet one" and then "musik" and now
"artifakts(bc)", hawtin acknowleges "consumed" as a fourth album and it
definitely could be seen as such but it is a big jump from the first 3...
so in a nutshell, if you're a hawtin/plastikman phreak like myself, you
need this, you can totally see the progression in each album up to and
including consumed.....artifakts)bc) is ambient bleepy, slightly beaty,
not as dubby as musik, not as mind shredding as sheet one.....
if this really is the last plastikman album, it was a great series,
seminal in the world of electronica
"and then i blew out the candle.........."
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