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quoted 2 lines From: Tom Millar <tmillar@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>

>From: Tom Millar <tmillar@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> >

quoted 19 lines Flanger: Templates

>Flanger: Templates >Ntone CD33 > >What? Huh? Did I say Bernd Friedmann? I believe the guiding light on >this record must have been Atom Heart. Bernd Friedmann, whatever his >choice of sounds, never really composes music you can call "sparse." >This is sparse. Two-bit Acid Jazz all over the place. When Friedmann >does whip it out it's pretty obvious, because suddenly everything gets >this lush dubby feel and I start enjoying the record. Then it's just >back to sad little vamps and organ doodles which I couldn't give two >shits about really. God Dammit. I was really looking forward to this one >and it's boring. Guess I'll listen to Deutscher Funk 2 again. Or >Deutscher Funk 1, for that matter. Or my old Nonplace Urban Field stuff. >Hell, it's all pretty much more interesting than this turned out to be. >I think this is what happens when you work too hard, Bernd & Uwe. Calm >down, release a few less records a year, guys. Look at what happened to >Pete Namlook! Hey! We like you too much for that! > >Tom

I must humbly disagree with Tom's assessment of Flanger's Templates. It's one of the *least boring* releases of the year. It sounds positively restless with ideas, in fact. I haven't heard a record that toggles between the organic and synthetic with such rewarding results in... well, a long time. Kind of conjures what I imagine a collaboration recorded in Mego laboratories between Matmos and Luke Vibert would sound like. It's a subtle, headphone album, with all kinds of interesting microscopic sonic events happening in an ADD-friendly manner. I often agree with Tom's reviews, but I think he was off the mark with Flanger. Dave Segal Managing Editor/Alternative Press Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux/Origins Of Cool Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST www.wcsb.org np: flanger- templates [ntone]

quoted 4 lines I haven't heard a record that toggles between

> > I haven't heard a record that toggles between > the organic and synthetic with such rewarding results in... > well, a long time.

What came to mind on my first listen was Senor Coconut...not the style (obviously), but remember the lovely way that disc would mix acoustic sounding samples with digital blips and bleeps in such fashion that it sometimes was hard to tell where the line was (and if you blinked or turned your head you'd miss the line and just *suddenly* find yourself transitioned)? jeff ps I'm not bored, either. -- jeff "10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if they're right." dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008

Grain of Salt when reading nearly anything I post : I'm old and have lived through many *phases* of music collecting the whole way, so I really like some of the areas from which the disc draws...all that 70s fusion and cheese are "good" things for me. Not that age has anything at all to do with an ability to suss out the good from the bad, but it brings along a whole other set of *memory makers* which crop up when you hear the references and having "been there" when X style was coalescing gives the listener a different angle at times. jeff Tom Millar wrote:

quoted 12 lines ps

> > ps > > I'm not bored, either. > > > > -- > > jeff > > Well, I didn't listen to it as closely as maybe I should have. > It goes in the car this weekend for the eight hour round trip from > school to home and back. > If I have any epiphanies I'll post 'em. > > Tom

-- jeff "10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if they're right." dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008