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At 12:52 AM 1/11/99 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 4 lines I don't have a burner. If you want Lexaunculpt, I won't be burning one.

>> I don't have a burner. If you want Lexaunculpt, I won't be burning one. >> Hmm, though there is a burner at work... > >nobody is burning lexaunculpt unless they want to get shot.

word gonzi. here's the way i see it: mask = not in print. burn it, i don't give a rat's ass. lexaunculpt = released soon on orange, and still available on isophlux. i'm pretty sure that most of the cd-rs of lexaunculpt floating around are the tracks from the upcoming orange release, with maybe some of the isophlux tracks on there too. buy the friggin release when it comes out. there's no excuse for not supporting artists when it's at all possible. so there. .. brian rachielles kcsb 91.9 fm santa barbara http://www.rain.org/~audio olly: what's your least favorite emotion? chester: itchy.

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, brian r. wrote:

quoted 7 lines i'm pretty sure that most of the cd-rs of lexaunculpt floating around

> i'm pretty sure that most of the cd-rs of lexaunculpt floating around > are the tracks from the upcoming orange release, with maybe some > of the isophlux tracks on there too. buy the friggin release when > it comes out. there's no excuse for not supporting artists when > it's at all possible. > > so there.

to be honest, there is some older stuff floating around on cdr, that may or may not live up to folks impressions. these are the cdr's i was talking about. and no, i wont copy them for you, as i cant even dub cassettes very easily :) but if you can find some, give them a listen.. i think its always neat to see where an artist has come from.. really though, if you want to hear lexaunculpt, just turn on kuci. they (we?) seem to have adopted the kid there. kuci.org chris.

"brian r." wrote:

quoted 7 lines i'm pretty sure that most of the cd-rs of lexaunculpt floating around

> i'm pretty sure that most of the cd-rs of lexaunculpt floating around > are the tracks from the upcoming orange release, with maybe some > of the isophlux tracks on there too. buy the friggin release when > it comes out. there's no excuse for not supporting artists when > it's at all possible. > > so there.

Not to brag, but I've got close to 12 different cd-r's full of Lexaunculpt material and I love ALL of it. And this is NOT including the Isophlux or Orange tracks, his earlier Hazel Window incarnation or the Digital Taco Crew 'Mexican' EP. In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going straight at your head like a bullet for '99! Word to the mothership, brockout. ps. Please don't ask, I don't have a CDR or functioning tape deck. :-)

quoted 2 lines In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going

> In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going > straight at your head like a bullet for '99!

Better take me out now, then. Can you SoCal guys get over yourselves now?

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote:

quoted 4 lines In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going

> > In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going > > straight at your head like a bullet for '99! > > Better take me out now, then. Can you SoCal guys get over yourselves now?

yeah, as soon as the english folk get over themselves with their skam and warp praise. and the germans for their local artists. and the detroit guys for their.. well, you get the idea. what the hell? how is it brock is in need of getting over himself because hes really into what a local artist has put out? and beyond that, how is he representative of "you so-cal guys"? wait? is it because he posted about having cdrs of alex's (lexaunculpts) stuff? didnt you do the same? fact of the matter is, we "socal guys", just like the rest of the world, get excited over good music. it just so happens we have some *good* and solid material coming to us from just up the block.. and, hopefully, much of that music will be coming to other areas soon via gonzis label 'orange'. as i posted before, A LOT of alex's material is floating around on cdrs. and there is some online as well.. so perhaps youll come across some -- because there is a lot out and about. chris.

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Andrew Hime wrote:

quoted 4 lines In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going

> > In my eyes, Alex was most definitely 'the man' in '98 and is going > > straight at your head like a bullet for '99! > > Better take me out now, then. Can you SoCal guys get over yourselves now?

Yes, there is not much more I'd think ought be posted until the record comes out and the remaining 95% of the list members can hear Alex's music. However most listees can share in the mp3's at the peachfuzz.net site. I checked them out and listenned to them on some nice studio monitors... the mp3 format definitely translated well for his music! The music sounds to me like Autechre'ish "drum" rolls, well particularly rolls of "clicks" on one mp3 that change speed as though a sample were being portamento'ed or pitch-bent. There is a lot of digital FM and filter sweeps (or strange eq sweeps) and it sounds like it is coming out of one box (like an e4 or akai) for sure. The periods of time that went by between references to the beat/clock are particularly Autechre-ish. Very carefully programmed and vaguely melodic. If you play the mp3's back in different orders, jukebox-style, you can find ways that they blend into each other pretty well (they are really short and don't change throughout). That makes me think that you could make a bunch of short noises as mp3's and have them heard in random order like the minidisc idea.... for that matter, since minidisc is mpeg2 level standarad I believe, maybe someone could convince autechre that it is true to thier artistic goal to release these as mp3's to be heard on random-order play... I'm noticing that west coast techno and idm-ish stuff (I'm thinking of some reflectiv label stuff like space-time-continuum, and old stuff, too) has a certain common atmosphere to it... or is that just a sign of amateurishness? Any opinions here? Lance, Andrew D,? cripes you guys have heard it all and then some. solenoid