Saturday, November 12th, 1994 at 4:16pm
there was some mention of delerium's "semantic spaces" back in august or so,
but it seemed to have gotten a few offhand comments like "the enigma crowd
will enjoy this...", etc. i don't think that it got the scrutiny or respect
that it deserves, so i just want to mention it again....
one person on this list said about this disc, "rhys fulber and bill leeb were
the reason that i was given ears...". even though i'm not such a big fan of
their other stuff (the new frontline assembly disc is godawful), this disc is
positively one of the richest, smoothest, best-produced discs that i've ever
heard. each of the songs is around 7 - 9 minutes long, and we have beautiful,
spacey transitions between each one, creating a seamless 78 minute magic
carpet ride. there are lots of ethnic samples which are intertwined with
wavestation and 01/w sounds, and then heavy, dub-indica bass lines which roll
along down below. lots of greens, golds, and blues....
all of the tracks are in the 90 - 110 bpm range, and i'd say that this is my
choice for best marijuana soundtrack of the year.
you can check out delerium's backcatalogue and hear some samples of "semantic
spaces" by webbing up to
http://www.wimsey.com/nettwerk/, but be forewearned -
- just as front line assembly sounds quite different from delerium, the
various delerium albums sound fairly different from each other as well...
finally, the track that nettwerk used to showcase delerium on the web page is
not necessarily that representative of the "semantic spaces" album in
general...
over and out
jwgrote@indiana.edu
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