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At 05:03 PM 3/16/98 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 8 lines Artist: Electric Company

>Artist: Electric Company >Title: ? (don't have it in front of me) >Label: Island > >Wow. I found this on my desk this morning when I went into work and was >immediately blown away. This is some raw like shiznit with bleeps, bloops, >jungle snippets, complete discontinuity, the whole shebang. Anyone know >who this guy is? What's the story?

Electric Company is one Brad Lainer (sp?) of the L.A. based bliss-out band Amnesia. Electric Co. is his solo electronic side project, and yes, it is some raw phucked up stuff. Quite tasty if you are in to the dirty beat/dark ambient sort of thing. I have yet to hear the new cd, though, so i cannot comment on it. All i know is if you ever see the Amnesia double cd "Cherry Flovour Nite Time" for a reasonable price, you should pick it up. the first disc is a fairly straight ahead psych-drone-fuzz pop record, but the second is the Electric Company 'remix' of the album and is INCREDIBLE. Very dark & moody with disjointed beats and general overmodulated craziness. There is also a full length cd on american (the name of which i cannot remember...i seem to remember that it is an anagram of 'electric company') and a 10"/7" double pack of some live recordings that are generally noisy and scary. I know there is more I am not thinking of... BTW, Brad used to be in a little band called Medicine, too. To top it all off, he's one of the nicest fellas i've ever had the pleasure to meet. He used to come in to a record store i worked at and buy lots of crazy records. toodles, steve.

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Steven Center wrote:

quoted 9 lines Electric Company is one Brad Lainer (sp?) of the L.A. based bliss-out band

> Electric Company is one Brad Lainer (sp?) of the L.A. based bliss-out band > Amnesia. Electric Co. is his solo electronic side project, and yes, it is > some raw phucked up stuff. Quite tasty if you are in to the dirty beat/dark > ambient sort of thing. I have yet to hear the new cd, though, so i cannot > comment on it. All i know is if you ever see the Amnesia double cd "Cherry > Flovour Nite Time" for a reasonable price, you should pick it up. the first > disc is a fairly straight ahead psych-drone-fuzz pop record, but the second > is the Electric Company 'remix' of the album and is INCREDIBLE. Very dark & > moody with disjointed beats and general overmodulated craziness.

Just a warning -- not ALL the amnesia cd's have the second disc. in fact, i think most of them do not. there is NO packaging difference, except that the double cd will be in a 2 CD case (they are marked a bit differently somehow..) just so you know, chris.

<<and a 10"/7" double pack of some live recordings that are generally noisy and scary. >> i have a copy of this available for trade if anyone is interested...(?) -thad