IDM Mailing Archive

Pardon me if this is (one month) old news, but I just thought I'd mention it. (It's actually pretty good for me that I'm only a month behind you (-: ) The first few tracks of "My Yellow Wise Rug" had me wondering if I'd bought a clunker (and at US $22.98 or thereabouts, I can't afford clunkers). Just seemed to be too mellow and listless; almost (in ambience) like "Bytes" or something. Then "Hectic Bag" came on and just about blew me a new arsehole. Track 9 ("Shades Amaze") is also really cool - neat phlanged female airy backdrop vocals sampling, and something that reminds me of those weird noises the Monolith in 2001 kept emitting (-: As for the remainder, I found it helps to be in a small room with little efficient monitor speakers flanking you; you catch the nuances of the mellower stuff a lot better ... I think at some point somebody (Regis) asked what was in the stereogram. Well, I can *see* everything in it, and it's not clear that anything that makes up the different levels is supposed to *be* anything, at least that which exists in Nature (-: - Greg OnNow: Re-Load Records - "The Compilation" OnBefore: Luke Slater's 7th Plain - "My Yellow Wise Rug"