On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 JShupester@aol.com wrote:
quoted 4 lines some rephlex is really taking the piss. i have a lot of it and some of>
> some rephlex is really taking the piss. i have a lot of it and some of
> it is great, others ok, but some total garbage.
>
I have to agree that some RePHLeX releases border on the insane (and
humorous, even). RePHLeX is not your run-of-the-mill label with a
consistent track record, but I have to admit that they still keep
surprising me. I have been following the label since 1992, and I have
everything (and I really mean that) possible on the label on vinyl
(excluded are the test-pressing-only and promo releases) and most of it
on CD, and though I do agree that some of it could have been omitted,
RePHLeX's back catalogue would not be the same without the odd bits.
As I wrote earlier, I met Grant (Wilson-Claridge) and Richard
(D. James), the founders of the label just a few weeks back, and though
they are both very nice blokes they have a very uncompromising attitude
towards music, they do their own thing, regardless of what some purists
say. If you don't like the music they release, you don't have to buy or
listen to it. There is so much music in the world that there is bound to
be something for everyone.
quoted 2 lines jones?> jones?
>
I really liked ``You're the One''. The first 12" wasn't that impressive,
but both versions of ``You're the One'' kick ass. Last year's RePHReSH
here in Finland had someone playing Europe's ``Final Countdown''. Both
Jones' releases are way better than that.
quoted 2 lines sam and valley?> sam and valley?
>
I have to agree with you on this - just too weird. Japanese electronic
pop/rock/whatever - I've probably listened to it once, and not thoroughly
even then. But it is the only one I can't appreciate - out of a hundred
releases (for fairness I have to say that Bodenstandig 2000 comes close,
too, but the lo-fi synth pieces save the album).
quoted 2 lines freakwincey?> freakwincey?
>
Fabulously produced piss-take on R&B. I really like the track, it still
doesn't fail to make me chuckle (or in the case of hitting the bong,
rolling on the floor/bed/sofa laughing).
quoted 2 lines i mean, i always expected more from aphex's label and still can't figure it> i mean, i always expected more from aphex's label and still can't figure it
>
RePHLeX is _not_ Richard D. James. You can't expect every release on
RePHLeX to be Aphex Twin. They're really just doing what they like, and
not giving a damn about commercial success (though some of the releases
have seen that, too) - and just paying no attention whiners who think
that all the world's just Aphex Twin. As I was very pleasantly surprised,
Richard is just a bloke doing his own thing - at the Ph1nland RePHReSH
afterparty he was mixing with the crowd and chatting with people with his
anorak and backpack on. His music is good and he is highly appreciated
(revered, even) but it hasn't gone to his head - a very rare thing indeed.
quoted 3 lines oh, and dmx krew "fresh"> oh, and dmx krew "fresh"
> what a joke.
>
Initially I didn't much like any of DMX Krew's releases, but now I've
started to appreciate (the irony of) the music. I was listening to cheesy
italopop during the eighties, then graduating through mixed stuff like
Max-Mixes etc. to my first visit to Ibiza during the summer of 1989 (I
was 15) - new beat, acid house - I was instantly hooked. But I digress.
I find Ed DMX's music well produced, it has more soul (and much, _much_
better melodies) than can be said for the clicks and cuts and DSP trickery
movements nowadays. Tracks like ``Adrenalin Flow'' and ``Denki No Merodi''
are just brilliant. ``I Am A Mouse'' never fails to put a smile on my
face (I am a mouse/I like eating cheese... :).
I have had to learn not to take music so godawfully seriously. Labels
like RePHLeX and are releasing music which challenges the way we think
(about music) - probably why the RePHLeX lads started calling their style
of music Braindance.
As for the latest releases - Yee King's ``Superuser'', Kosmik Kommando's
``Laptop Dancing'' and PP Roy's ``You Can't Help Liking...'' - all very
wicked. Well worth checking out if you've got an open mind and a broad
taste in music.
Cheers,
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