From: Sven Venema <S.Venema@cit.gu.edu.au>
To: idm@techno.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Reviews
I picked up two excellent records lately and I thought I'd do a little
review of them. I haven't seen either of these Eps reviewed before,
but they're good enough to be reviewed twice in any case :)
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Neuropolitique : Menage a' trois
Irdial-Discs
Tracks: Can't Get Off The Slide
No Feet On Stage
Menage a' Trois
Idiotic Lantern
Report
Faze
Express Triangle
This is probably my favourite Ep for the year so far, it's got a very
clean and flowing sound, but the tunes are twisted and off the wall.
Some of the twisted sounds that Matt Cogger (Neuropolitique) uses
remind me a bit of sounds that Orlando Voorn might use.
I wouldn't classify any of the tracks on this Ep as 'sane' tracks,
they're all twisted in some way, and it's twisted in a good way too :).
The tracks build up fairly well, and I usually find that I'm chair
bopping when I listen to it. Menage a' Trois is the most dance-able
track on the Ep, but it's still very much IDM, just a bit more high
energy than the other tracks. There's lots of percussion, and those
D-Jax style tubular sounding high-hats make an appearance as well.
I really like every single track on this Ep,it's something that I'll
be playing for a long long time to come.
Give it a listen if you see it, it's probably not to everyone's taste,
but I LOVE it :)
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YO3 : The Deep Sleep Ep
General Production Recordings : genp(x)22
Tracks: Deep Sleep
Scramble
Liquid Flow
No More Lies
This is another record that I will play for a long time to come, all
four tracks are good. There's no major deviation from the GPR style,
lots of interesting drum patterns, strange piano-y noises and squelchy
sounds. It's a fairly mellow Ep for the most part, although it's not
ambient by any means. But there are some nice long beatless breaks in
a couple of the tracks, especially Deep Sleep. A large part of
No More lies is entirely beatless, it just has a piano-y tune playing
and gradually more and more sounds are added until there's a really
cruisy track that flows beautifully. Part of the Deep Sleep track reminds
me of the Orb's little fluffy clouds for some reason, it could be
because they use a similar sound though... :) My favourite track on the
Ep is Scramble. This is my favourite track for 94 so far. It starts off
with a distorted Bwaummmm kind of sound, has drums added to it to make
it a cruisy kind of 'walking' track, and then breaks down into a
beautiful track. There's a synthy noise that comes in that does something
to me everytime I hear it. Some metallic tapping noises are added and
the rest of the track comes back in. Very very nice :)
If you like Ken Ishii then you might want to check this Ep out, it's a
similar kind of style, sort of :)
Cheers, Sven.
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