<cirop55@maple.circa.ufl.edu> asks:
quoted 7 lines Someone on the newsgroup alt.music.techno recently gave me some titles of>Someone on the newsgroup alt.music.techno recently gave me some titles of
>releases by Cosmic Baby. I was wondering if anyone has heard these titles,
>what you think of them, and where I could order them in the U.S.
>
>The one I'm most interested in is "Stellar Supreme," supposed to be an
>excellent full-length LP. There's also "23", a "mini-LP with 4 tracks"
>(why don't they just call it an EP?).
here's a review i wrote a while ago. you should check the IDM ftp
server at techno.stanford.edu for my other reviews...
Cosmic Baby - Stellar Supreme
MFS 7033-2
139 8:37 The Space Track
137 6:25 Stimme der Energie
137 6:11 Stellar Supreme
133 6:09 Heaven's Tears
5:48 Planet Earth 1993 (Blue)
5:10 The Planotrack (Yellow)
3:19 Sea Of Tranquility
1:01 Cosmikk Trigger 5.1
138 5:37 Sweet Dreams For Kaa - My Love
0:51 Studio Or Spaceship
138 4:14 Galaxia
140 4:55 Cosmic Force
137 6:23 Eurovoodoo
138 6:43 Liebe (Red)
114 5:33 The Universal Mind
I'm developing a completely irrational hatred for the Berlin sound.
This disc just rubs me the wrong way, and there's no reason for it.
The songs are nice: no hardcore, no headbanging, pretty melodies, lots
of arpeggios and spacey sound effects, but it's just lacking something
that makes it more than some guy wanking on a synth. I don't know
what, and that's what frustrates me. It just sounds soulless. It
gets particularly horrible at the end with the twin disasters of
"Liebe" (bad happy pop music) and "Universal Mind" (a failed attempt
at moving the epic Jarre style into Berlin techno). Oh, it's not all
bad... "Cosmic Force" is a passable acid trancer, and as I said, there
*are* some pretty melodies here. Overall, I'm reminded of the FAX
compilations (normal and ambient) - I don't like their sound either
despite the fact that they do nothing "wrong" per se... It's just
that not much about this is "right" either. Bleah.
Jon Drukman jdrukman%dlsun87@oracle.com
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