From: ~enhanced--todd sines <tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Planet E comp & more...
I'm trying not to toot my own horn, but I just wanted to let you know that
I'm releasing a 4 track EP (1 of 3) on Peacefrog UK records in 3 weeks;
the title to look for is:
.xtrak (artist) transfer EP (album title)
tracks:
1. enim
2. enim (elastic remix)
3. d'hak
4. wxon
I'm also doing an album for Accelerate under the same name. another 4 tracker... co produced by Dan Bell (DBX.)
In the future there may be a collaboration with Dan Curtin (former Catholic school mate and friend from home in Cleveland) as well as a Sublime album...in addition to 2 EPs for Planet E and the 2LP album.
If the guys from the Connection Machine are on here; email me; I want to know what you think of the artwork I did for your album & CD.
That's all. let me know if you like the stuff.
todd
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> From: macqueen@student.msu.edu (Matt MacQueen)
> To: Multiple recipients of list <mw-raves@csd.uwm.edu>
> Subject: Re: New comp on Planet E
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> >I picked up Friday (but haven't had a chance to listen to yet) a new
> >CD compilation on Planet E:
> >
> >_Elements of and Experiments with Sound_ - Various Artists
> > (no catalog # listed)
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> >It comes in a truly bizarre round plastic case with a colorful insert
> >and some really cool distorted gray type on top. Unfortunately, the
> >lid is *very* losse and the plastic feels pretty thin and brittle.
> >The placard underneath the disc at the store said that it's limited
> >to 1000 copies, but I don't know if this refers to the special packaging
> >(probably) or the compilation itself.
>
> I *LOVE* this disk and have been playing it at work ... I asked the
> RecordTime folks if it was also released on vinyl and all they new was "we
> don't have any." so I took that as a "no." I wish I could me mixing some
> of these tracks!
>
> I finally figured out that I think the case it supposted to be a
> laboratory PETRI DISH, cause on the back it says "SPECIMENS" and there is
> a little molecule on the top. The sad thing is it it took me 3 days to
> figure it out. ;)
>
> I love the first track, "Raindrops." I went to high-school with
> Fannon Flowers (mode selector) and he has been making strong techno for
> several years. I'm very happy his talent has finally been recognized. I
> remember when he borrowed a 606 from a friend's ROCK band, they were like:
> "WHAT IN THE HELL CAN YOU DO WITH THAT THING?" ... and the rest is history.
> :) His other stuff is great as well, I have an old tape he gave me 2
> summers ago and I still listen to it in my car all the time (!). (That's a
> damn good shelf-life for techno from an then-unsigned techno artist).
>
> Aaron Bennett, can you help me here? Didn't Fannon say that he had
> a 12" or two, and a full-length release due later this year as "mode
> selector?"
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> But Sines' track "Knaqua" is my favorite (beside's Carl's "Remake,"
> of course, which has been around for awhile and I probably play *waaayyy*
> too much). :) It's such a bizairre progression with all kinds of bleeps
> and pretty tweaking at the beginning and a fantastic analogue gurgle that
> sounds like water at the bottom of a paper cup being sucked up slower and
> then faster with a straw. [sorry, but that's what is sounds like to me].
> Then more beats drop, and even later come the "crispy cymbals" :)
> ....It's simply a phenominal track.....
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> If you like Carl Craig's style, there is a new (recent?) Paperclip
> People 12" at Submerge that is very good, and as usual, distinct and
> "different." Track names are something like "Paperclip People theme" or
> something like that, and "Gypsy Man" and one other I forgot. I'll review
> that, and the new Surburban Knight stuff on Underground Resistance
> soon.......
>
> Mr. Craig is also interviewed in the excellent techno/house/electro
> zine "Under One Sky." All I can say is that if this comp is a sign of
> things to come from Planet E, I can't wait for the rest! I encourage
> people to get this CD and support the fresh and upcoming artists in new
> techno.
>
> Peaceout,
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