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Sorry for the cross post. Was in a shop the other day and saw a second Biosphere/HIA collaboration Birmingham Sequences. A follow-up to Polar Sequences I presume. Does anyone have this and care to give me their view. I have Polar Sequences and enjoy it a great deal. I ended up getting Rapoon's "The Kirghiz Light" and Tetsu Inoue's "Ambient Otaku", which I presume is a re-issue as it's on the ambient world label. I would heartily recommend both on my limited listens. The Kirghiz Light is "primitive/ethno" electronica and ambient and very much up my street. Very similar to Equator by O Yuki Conjugate. Ambient Otaku is slowly building elecronic ambience in a very similar vein to Organic Cloud. I've only listened to them a couple of times so these are just initial impressions. Been quite lucky this week with gigs. Last Thursday was Mu-Ziq at Planet K, Manchester. Friday was Mira Calix with a Gescom DJ set at the Music Box. Mu-Ziq was supported by Luke Vibert and B J Cole. I've not come across B J Cole before so didn't know what to expect. He played a dulcimer (horizontal rectangular thing with strings which he played with a slide "finger"). The dulcimer is something I associate with country so was a little suprised to see it here. The mixture of Luke Vibert's eclectic hip-hop beats,from boxes rather than vinyl, and the dulcimer did actually work really well. This would probably be considered a bit of an odd cross-over in the US - country/hip-hop. Mike Paradinas was excellent. There were a few things I recognised but nothing I could name. For the most part his set consisted of pretty hectic beats which everyone present did their very best to dance to. I certainly thoroughly enjoyed it. Even the wife enjoyed it, which is saying something for someone who keeps putting Macy Gray on repeat at home. Friday was a bit of a disappointment, especially after Thursday. The Gescom set was one of the high points but didn't really get past the head nodding, foot tapping stage. I'm a bit confused by what followed. Next on the bill was Req (on the Skint labe). Some guy came on and played with a little box of tricks and did some scratching over it. Not very inspiring stuff I'm afraid. This went on until 2.30 AM. The thing was scheduled to finish at 3 AM. I waited a bit and left at 2.45 hoping for some glimpse of Mira Calix. I'm pretty sure this would mean seeing a female doing things but none were to be seen. Unless she did a ten minute set after I left, she didn't show. Perhaps there is still a Warp representative on the list who could explain. Well, thanks if you're still reading. Sorry to go on if you don't like long posts. Lots of love Tim Seek simplicity and distrust it. - Alfred North Whitehead (1919) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

On Mon, 22 May 2000, Timothy Fothergill wrote:

quoted 5 lines Was in a shop the other day and saw a second Biosphere/HIA

> Was in a shop the other day and saw a second Biosphere/HIA > collaboration Birmingham Sequences. A follow-up to Polar Sequences I > presume. Does anyone have this and care to give me their view. I have > Polar Sequences and enjoy it a great deal. >

Birmingham Sequences is just as good, but is in some ways more reminiscent of Substrata, but with beats.

quoted 4 lines Been quite lucky this week with gigs. Last Thursday was Mu-Ziq at

> Been quite lucky this week with gigs. Last Thursday was Mu-Ziq at > Planet K, Manchester. Friday was Mira Calix with a Gescom DJ set at > the Music Box. >

Didn't make it to that one. I went to see Ghost Dog instead, which (for tangential relevance) has some top tunes and a brief cameo from RZA.

quoted 14 lines Friday was a bit of a disappointment, especially after Thursday. The

> > Friday was a bit of a disappointment, especially after Thursday. The > Gescom set was one of the high points but didn't really get past the > head nodding, foot tapping stage. I'm a bit confused by what > followed. Next on the bill was Req (on the Skint labe). Some guy came > on and played with a little box of tricks and did some scratching > over it. Not very inspiring stuff I'm afraid. This went on until 2.30 > AM. The thing was scheduled to finish at 3 AM. I waited a bit and > left at 2.45 hoping for some glimpse of Mira Calix. I'm pretty sure > this would mean seeing a female doing things but none were to be > seen. Unless she did a ten minute set after I left, she didn't show. > Perhaps there is still a Warp representative on the list who could > explain. >

Yes, it wasn't a very good night, particularly when compared with Altern8 the fortnight before. Mira Calix did turn up actually. The first DJ was Sean, with a load of MiniDisc-based cut-ups of familiar tunes. Then Mira Calix span for an hour or so. Possibly someone else for a while and then Req. We left not long into his set. Did you not go to the first of the Pelicanneck-promoted Off-Peak events at the Deluxe bar in the Contact theatre? From 3-11pm with a variety of DJs and live sets. Not sure who was on the decks when I arrived but he played some nice stuff. After him Remote Viewer live, who seemed to enjoy themselves, especially the DJ but I didn't fully share their enthusiasm. Good head-nodding though. Thaddi Hermann played some of his new Hermann & Kleine tunes on a Mac laptop. Some perhaps a little overlong but nevertheless enjoyable. Then I think it was Stock, Hausen and Walkman DJing, including a good chunk of Ambient 1. Arovane came on around 8pm. It was disappointing that he only played the Tides LP but it was still good to hear it all live and in public. He was using one of those Roland 8-track hard-drive (or MD?) devices. Following him was Rob Hall, very good as usual, then Mike from Skam with some aggressive electro, then some other people and finally a trio on drums, guitar and bass who were *nice* but I had to go at that point. All for free. Pity that the venue's acoustics aren't too good, but that didn't spoil things. The next one's the third weekend in June. Thanks to Mr. Pelican for putting on this event - we've been starved musically here for a while (albeit May has been good, with Papa M, Yo La Tengo, Altern8). Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

Isn't it a pedal steel guitar? (did it look like : http://www.fuzzypsg.com/3e.html)

quoted 8 lines Mu-Ziq was supported by Luke Vibert and B J Cole. I've not come

>Mu-Ziq was supported by Luke Vibert and B J Cole. I've not come >across B J Cole before so didn't know what to expect. He played a >dulcimer (horizontal rectangular thing with strings which he played >with a slide "finger"). The dulcimer is something I associate with >country so was a little suprised to see it here. The mixture of Luke >Vibert's eclectic hip-hop beats,from boxes rather than vinyl, and the >dulcimer did actually work really well. This would probably be >considered a bit of an odd cross-over in the US - country/hip-hop.

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yeah, it was a pedal steel guitar BJ Cole is old-skool session steel, he's played with Marc Bolan for chrissakes!!! Now that's straight up big league. word josh -- String Theory : Digital Music for Humans http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi On Mon, 22 May 2000, Bill Wright wrote:

quoted 20 lines Isn't it a pedal steel guitar? (did it look like :

> Isn't it a pedal steel guitar? (did it look like : > http://www.fuzzypsg.com/3e.html) > > > > >Mu-Ziq was supported by Luke Vibert and B J Cole. I've not come > >across B J Cole before so didn't know what to expect. He played a > >dulcimer (horizontal rectangular thing with strings which he played > >with a slide "finger"). The dulcimer is something I associate with > >country so was a little suprised to see it here. The mixture of Luke > >Vibert's eclectic hip-hop beats,from boxes rather than vinyl, and the > >dulcimer did actually work really well. This would probably be > >considered a bit of an odd cross-over in the US - country/hip-hop. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >

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