i'd like to congratulate columbia, missourian, fellow listmember, and
good friend jon sheffield on the imminent release of his third
full-length album, this time on the german label tomlab. check
http://www.tomlab.de/tom12 for information and sound bytes.
i was lucky enough to receive an advance CD-R copy of _it's been so long
since i've seen the ocean_ from the artist himself, and i highly
recommend it. it fuses the playful, careless sound of pop music with
the endless timbres made possible thru careful craftmanship of
electronic sounds and delicate treatment of samples. it really helps to
define a new direction in electronic music, one quite distinct from the
increasingly disjointed, glitchy sound of IDM and the tiresome
repetition inherent in the vast majority of house, trance, jungle, et
al.
reference points might include parts of _expert knob twiddlers_ on
rephlex or parts of _wunder_ on karaoke kalk. i really haven't heard
much music that sounds like this, so it's hard to make comparisons.
and that is fucking cool IMO. artists i know to have influenced jon's
music include mouse on mars and boards of canada (MoM and BoC!) among
many others.
do yourself a favor and check out jon's new album; even if it doesn't
strike you at first, i'm sure it will grow on you. according to
tomlab's front page, "tom12 - JON SHEFFIELD CD/LP will be out in the
shops soon."
phase
np: static - static island (sonar kollectiv/mermaid rec.)
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