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It would appear to me that if everyone looked hard enough they would probably find a copy of ISDM somewhere. Try looking in crap mainstream shops where that would probably not sell too well. By the way I saw a copy last week in Stockport (Manchester). My advice would be to buy the new BDP album instead as it's rather special (Hmmm!). Does anyone actually like Portishead by the way??? In my humble opinion they are probably the worst example of the so called 'trip-hop' genre. Everyone should go out and buy Mo' wax records instead. Chris Hewson (cdh20@cam.ac.uk)

Here comes my two on Portishead... I really don't think that they are "trip-hop" at all...I have this strange feeling that they never use that narrow-minded term to discrobe their music that way. Jeez, where I come from, trip-hop was in reference to that goofy music the Wicked SF boys were playing--House with a lot of old electro instumentals and other little breaks records...Not this Mo'wax Dorado stuff, so popular of late. Portishead is good pop music. British. Moody. Dark. I never even thought to compare them to things relevant to this list. I know...Wait, I dug up this gem for you. "If you're going to catagorize us, then trip-hop's not a bad word, but not really necessary. The last thing I wanted to do was sound like Massive Attack." Geoff Barrow continues with: "Someone in France was saying we make really good pop which is their word for "alternative" music. Inthe States it will probably be the same." I think as far as pop music goes, they are pretty good. If all commercial radio was playing this kind of music, rather than the crap that it promotes (ballads! ballads! r+b! A local radio station just claimed on a TV commercial that it will play "No Bad Rap"! more ballads!) maybe American radio would'nt be so bad. On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Chris Hewson wrote:

quoted 14 lines It would appear to me that if everyone looked hard enough they

> > It would appear to me that if everyone looked hard enough they > would probably find a copy of ISDM somewhere. Try looking in crap > mainstream shops where that would probably not sell too well. By the way > I saw a copy last week in Stockport (Manchester). My advice would be to > buy the new BDP album instead as it's rather special (Hmmm!). > > Does anyone actually like Portishead by the way??? In my humble > opinion they are probably the worst example of the so called 'trip-hop' > genre. Everyone should go out and buy Mo' wax records instead. > > > Chris Hewson (cdh20@cam.ac.uk) >

On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Chris Hewson wrote:

quoted 3 lines Does anyone actually like Portishead by the way??? In my humble

> Does anyone actually like Portishead by the way??? In my humble > opinion they are probably the worst example of the so called 'trip-hop' > genre. Everyone should go out and buy Mo' wax records instead.

Um... I'd call that a slightly unfair criterion to slag them on (failing to pass muster in an artificial music-press created genre...) I love Mo' Wax, but I'd hardly take swipes at Portishead (or Massive Attack, or whoever) for not sounding like the stuff on that label. Anyway, I happen to think _Dummy_ is gorgeous, although not particularly thislisty... (look for a review in freeke reviews #8 anyway, due sometime before the next ice age, honest) on now: "Stutter" by Elastica (it's OK, I don't have one of those cool NovaMute "Fuck the New Wave of New Wave" shirts...) ----------------------------------------------------------------- dave walker, detroit art services _ marmoset@msen.com absolutely sweat, marie <A HREF="http://www.msen.com/~marmoset/">Dave Walker</A>

On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Chris Hewson wrote:

quoted 2 lines Secondly does anyone know whether Darren Emerson's Psychotrance

> Secondly does anyone know whether Darren Emerson's Psychotrance > II is any cop. Vol. 1 was O.K.

Ben Turner goes apeshit over it (the Emerson mix CD) in his review in this week's Melody Maker, calling it "simply the greatest mix CD that has ever been put together." Deep, melodic techno with the added bonus of Darren scratching over the top... :) - Matthew