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Why not? A while back when I got my first drum machine I tried to add beats to Glass's work Floe. Floe is from his album Glassworks, and has the same sort of creshendo and repetition one would find in any sort of trance/acid track. When I fisrt listen to Glass i thought he was synth, so his music is not at all classically classical sounding, in fact its quite innovative. Anyone who can put up with the Aphex Twit's wanking (oops I mean soundscape exploration, sorry) or any other ambient artist, would certainly like Glass. For something short and sweet and with really good tracks I would reccomend Glassworks. It's like UFOrb, it'll get you hooked on the artist. Speaking of Richard Dull James, I've only ever heard Ambient Works Volume ??? (the double CD one, the last one) and I thought it sucked, well there were two tracks I liked, but two tracks isn't enought to pop for a double CD. So anyone with a reccomendation? Also people mentioned seeing Aphex Twin in Columbia House thingy, I am gonna scam Columbia house, but I might as well get something good from them, anyone know that little number to for the AfX T's album they offered? Toshie -- | |##|## ||||| #|#|# |#|## ||||# #||#| ||#|# #|||| #|#|# #|||| ##|| |##| This ^^^^ is my government barcode identifier. # = thick lines, | = thin I don't make this stuff up. cooey@server.uwindsor.ca

quoted 13 lines On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Tosh wrote:

> > > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Tosh wrote: > > > Anyone who can put up with the Aphex Twit's wanking > > and.. > > > Speaking of Richard Dull James, I've only ever heard Ambient Works > > Volume ??? (the double CD one, the last one) > > Hurrah for informed opinions. >

Hey, I'd like to like him (seeing as how that seems to be official party line of IDM) But I obviously haven't heard his good stuff yet, and I was wondering what was. Toshie -- | |##|## ||||| #|#|# |#|## ||||# #||#| ||#|# #|||| #|#|# #|||| ##|| |##| This ^^^^ is my government barcode identifier. # = thick lines, | = thin I don't make this stuff up. cooey@server.uwindsor.ca

quoted 13 lines On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Tosh wrote:

> > > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Tosh wrote: > > > Anyone who can put up with the Aphex Twit's wanking > > and.. > > > Speaking of Richard Dull James, I've only ever heard Ambient Works > > Volume ??? (the double CD one, the last one) > > Hurrah for informed opinions. >

Then he wrote:

quoted 4 lines Hey, I'd like to like him (seeing as how that seems to be official party

>Hey, I'd like to like him (seeing as how that seems to be official party >line of IDM) But I obviously haven't heard his good stuff yet, and I was >wondering what was. >Toshie

The cd you listened to has a strange subtle quality to it that I didn't get til I had it for about 6 months. It's _interactive_. It can accompany what ever you are doing and/or thinking. I've listend to this cd many times and sometimes it's boring and sounds like nothing and others (more often than not now) it's just fucking incredible...so full of sound/texture/environment... that it's just amazing. It really seems to depend on your state of mind (and I don't mean you need to be high). I've had this cd be extremely interactive with my mental processes, thus IDM. The whole thing can be quite subtle and you must be tuned in to precieve it. I don't even know if RDJ knows it's like this or not, but I as well as others have experienced it. Give it more tries, the first time I heard it I was kind of disappointed. Rick