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1998-10-25 02:18Arthur B. Purvis (idm) EAR and Microstoria
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1998-10-25 02:18Arthur B. PurvisEAR: Nothing sounds like The Koner Experiment - personally I think "Millenium Music" is a
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Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:18:34 -0400 (EDT)
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(idm) EAR and Microstoria
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EAR: Nothing sounds like The Koner Experiment - personally I think "Millenium Music" is a really nice, _really_ atypical ambient record, but you may feel otherwise. All free improv (supposedly). Microstoria: Reprovisors is easily the best Microstoria release - to these ears they usually sound like a soulless version of Oval (sure many will disagree vehemently). That said, Reprovisors is about 50% uninspired rehashed microstoria dreck, and the other half is a strange mixture of the music of dying machines with random other influences from the "collaborators" that can be _extremely_ good - just listened to the FX Randomiz "mix" again two weeks ago and was blown away. I reviewed both these records, actually: http://www.princeton.edu/~abpurvis --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto