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On Oct 14, 11:45pm, you proclaimed: } The best headphone-listening-on-drugs record I've heard lately is } the new album by Fluke, "Six Wheels On My Wagon". The B-side (I've } got it on promo tape) is just pure magic. Get it. I talked to Jon } (Fluke's "main" man) the other day and he seemed well stoned. ;-) How similar is it to "Pan Am Into Philly"? I really didn't like that track, but I liked his tracks (and everything else) on that Creation dance compilation.... } Btw, Ken of Black Dog has now joined us on the Internet. Maybe we should } welcome him into our little idm community... :) As long as he doesn't tell us performers who don't mime their shows to DAT are somehow boring :) Does this mean that long-fabled Black Dog BBS is itself on the net too? Brian

quoted 4 lines } The best headphone-listening-on-drugs record I've heard lately is

>} The best headphone-listening-on-drugs record I've heard lately is >} the new album by Fluke, "Six Wheels On My Wagon". The B-side (I've > >How similar is it to "Pan Am Into Philly"? I really didn't like that

Sorry, but I haven't heard "Philly". When I hear the album I think of Underworld and Sabres Of Paradise. They've all got the same sort of smoking feeling. The music probably sounds crap on the radio but the way to listen to it is, like I said, in headphones and under influence of some sort of illegal substance (not that I do that kind of thing, of course...;-))

quoted 5 lines } Btw, Ken of Black Dog has now joined us on the Internet. Maybe we should

>} Btw, Ken of Black Dog has now joined us on the Internet. Maybe we should >} welcome him into our little idm community... > >:) As long as he doesn't tell us performers who don't mime their shows >to DAT are somehow boring :)

Actually, when I told him about the Moby flame fest on UseNet, he said he couldn't wait to join in... ;-)

quoted 1 line Does this mean that long-fabled Black Dog BBS is itself on the net too?

>Does this mean that long-fabled Black Dog BBS is itself on the net too?

No. I believe they're in the process of setting up their own Internet 'address' (which will be dogsquad.com) but until then he's just got a separate account at a public access site (demon). - chris@minsk.docs.uu.se

In article <9310142322.AA29344@minsk.docs.uu.se>, Christian Bartholdsson <chris@minsk.docs.uu.se> wrote:

quoted 4 lines } The best headphone-listening-on-drugs record I've heard lately is

>>} The best headphone-listening-on-drugs record I've heard lately is >>} the new album by Fluke, "Six Wheels On My Wagon". The B-side (I've >> >>How similar is it to "Pan Am Into Philly"? I really didn't like that

'Pan Am Into Philly' isn't really typical Fluke - it's slightly more experimental and jazzy than their more recent stuff. I hated the track on first listening, but now I love it. I suppose you'd describe most of Fluke's music as progressive house, before that tag got stuck with the tedious for-the-dancefloor-only dub house stuff. Strong on melodies, lots of layers of pulsing synths, occasion Beloved-style vocals, not too bass heavy.

quoted 5 lines Sorry, but I haven't heard "Philly". When I hear the album I think of

>Sorry, but I haven't heard "Philly". When I hear the album I think of >Underworld and Sabres Of Paradise. They've all got the same sort of smoking >feeling. The music probably sounds crap on the radio but the way to >listen to it is, like I said, in headphones and under influence of some >sort of illegal substance (not that I do that kind of thing, of course...;-))

The second half does have comparisons with the Sabres, but slightly less left field and less seedy. Strange the effect on music that the shift in the drug of choice has had... -- Stephen Hebditch TQM Communications steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk