On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Kent Williams wrote:
quoted 4 lines I am curious as to why while I can buy dozens of disks by English dudes> I am curious as to why while I can buy dozens of disks by English dudes
> like Orb, FSOL and Orbital, I can't find any good comps of the real detroit
> stuff. As much as I like ambient music, do we really need another
> ambient comp?
There's a real devotion to vinyl here, since so many of the musicians are
also DJ's. Check out the near-fetishization of vinyl with someone like
Jeff Mills -- the Cycle 30 EP had *9* locked grooves, for example. Or
the X-102 vinyl, with the grooves arranged like Saturn's rings on one
side, and the tracks playing from inside-out on the other side...
There's also the idea that vinyl 12"s are more "underground"
than CD comps. Good news is that Submerge has planned a series of comps
(the first, Depth Charge 1, is already out) that will make a fair
amount of stuff on the Submerge-affiliated labels (UR, Shockwave, Red
Planet, Happy, Simply Soul, and many more) availible on CD for the first
time.
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