On Thu, 22 Sep 1994, Jeffrey Kihn wrote:
quoted 24 lines Also picked up the Woob album just out on Emit, and I like it a lot.> Also picked up the Woob album just out on Emit, and I like it a lot.
> It has the flow of a live ambient set (which it sort of is), in that
> it doesnUt have your typical intro-buildup-climax-outro form, but
> shifts from idea to idea, sometimes trancing out, sometimes not.
> The ambient stuff is not so much unsettling as mysterious, with
> snippets of voices, natural sounds, and icy textures. The drums are
> tribaly with slow-trance breakbeats, usually build around some sort of
> ethnic instrument or voice. He has a habit of pitching the voices
> higher, which you would think would make them chipmunky and irritating,
> but instead makes them rather alien and mesmerising. Cool stuff.
>
> My current problem is that when IUm record shopping my eye keeps
> wandering over to industrial/experimental ambient stuff, but I have
> no idea where to start.
> Muslimgause, Zoviet France, Paul Schutze, Mo Boma, Shinjuku Thief,
> Hafler Trio...all there are things I want to check out, but every
> time I think about it my bank account just gives me this withering
> look and thatUs the end of it. So would anyone who has some expertise
> is this genre (or just has tons of Extreme) be willing to make me a
> sampler tape? I will gladly reciprocate with whatever.
> Thank you for your support.
>
> --Jeff
>
Hello Jeff-
Speaking as someone who owns almost all the of the Muslimgauze releases,
I would definately recommend them as worth checking out. Their material
actually varies from quite aggressive percussive centered work (a), to more
ambient, lush interweeving " percussive textures " (b). My top five in
order:
1)Vieled Sisters (2CD set) (b)
2)Betrayal (b)
3)Zulm (a/b)
4)Vote Hezabollah (a)
5)Coup De'Tat (a/b)
I have owned some of these for some time now, and still consider them as
a cornerstone of my CD collection...
As for the others, I have heard them at the store but haven't brought
them home with me- of them all, I would say Halfler Trio is the most
intruiging, though I never know just what it is they think (or want other
people to think, perhaps....) they're doing. Any comments, anyone?
As for a sampler tape, contact me individually and we can talk...
All 'Gauzed up-
Thad
thad@falcon.cc.ukans.edu