Hi,
Splurged BIG today on quite a few a musical items, including:
Urmur Bile Trax cd
Port Rhombus
Atomic Moog 2000/Boot the System/Natural Rhthym
Orblivion
Star Wars Boxed set of 4cds containing all the scores and unreleased
scores.
+ a few more cds.
Anyhow a few comments i'd like to make:
The coldcut cd is great as usual, but the cdrom portion, ie, natural
rhythm is phenomenal. The seemless integration of video with the music
because the two were done in conjunction with each other is brilliant.
I'm actually surprised this hasn't been done more often before. I can
remember seeing Amiga demos that had all the coded effects timed to the
music which made them so much better, imho. A big up to the coldcut
boys and ninjatunes.
Urmur Bile Trax:
I was expecting this to be a lot worse than what it actually is due to
all the shite going around on this list about it. It's much better than
the Port Rhombus ep by Squarepusher (who's full-length is brilliant!),
imho. I was also expecting this to be a full on drill 'n' bass release,
due to list heresay.. it's far from it.
Oh well the rest will get reviewed sometime later.
Though..
quoted 10 lines These eight new pieces refused to reveal anything more than a nasty> These eight new pieces refused to reveal anything more than a nasty
> machine-like grind at first, but now I'm struck by both his square-
> jawed rhythmic embossments and the more subtle sonic details. It's
> also worth noting that Paradinas hasn't given up his trademrk fuzzy
> synth sounds. It's true that u-ziq now isn't waht I thought it
> might be, but it's also as good as I had hoped. I guess sometimes
> your banana split turns out to be a Nutty Buddy."
>
>
> Makes me want to give it another listen.
I think that it's a nice companion, all be it a lot more jungly in
places to
his earlier work, and considering that it's basically remixes of earlier
tracks it's not surprising. I quite enjoy listening to it, but will it
stand the test of time... maybe not. Though only time will tell. I'm
glad
I brought it though.
I'm off to hear the Orb.. :)
Regards,
John