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Hi! On what label is the dead cities cd gonna be released besides american astralwerks (read:europe&israel;)) Snow.

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Eylon Israeli wrote:

quoted 2 lines On what label is the dead cities cd gonna be released besides american

> On what label is the dead cities cd gonna be released besides american > astralwerks (read:europe&israel;))

Could tell you about the distribution in israel, but Virgin UK owns the recording, and will be distributing it in Canada and the United Kingdom. Lame Thread Prevention in Effect: Aaron Michelson --------------------------------------------------------------------- aw-teck'r (autechre) "Everything you Know is Wrong." For reviews, interviews, art & trash *UPDATED* http://www.io.org/~amichel/ amichel@io.org

okay. there has been much debate on how this ranks with their back catalogue...i just have 2 questions: 1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms? 2 - Should I buy it? -ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ben Londa * - e x i t --- exit@pobox.com --- e x i t - S.U. Box 6083 * * http://exit.home.ml.org * Georgetown, TX 78626 *----------------------------------------------------- USA * Official Soul Whirling Somewhere site: londab@southwestern.edu * * http://sws.home.ml.org * ben.londa@pobox.com * -- sws@pobox.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, ben londa wrote:

quoted 1 line 1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms?

> 1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms?

Different.. maybe not quite the classic tho.

quoted 1 line 2 - Should I buy it?

> 2 - Should I buy it?

Yes. It's well worth the purchase. -s [OnNow: Nightmares on Wax - "Still Smokin'"] ---- ,+'^'+, sage@3Sheep.COM . finger for public key. sasha eysymontt * 93 A3 9C 49 EB E9 0D 0E B5 F6 C3 57 58 D3 12 CE `+,.,+' Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? --Juvenal

quoted 7 lines okay. there has been much debate on how this ranks with their back

>okay. there has been much debate on how this ranks with their back >catalogue...i just have 2 questions: > >1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms? > >2 - Should I buy it? >

Imagine a bizarre genetic experiment gone wrong, by combining DNA from "Lifeforms" and "ISDN". Allow the resulting primordial soup to mutate under the influence of uv radiation. If you can imagine the result, and like it, then you'll like Dead Cities. Don't forget the soup crackers! And don't complain about the swimming flies (one is named Vit). They're supposed to be there. It's art. "Anything sounds good with a beat?" Zenon M. Feszczak Ambientologist

quoted 1 line 1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms?

>1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms?

just as good. it's lifeforms with lessons learned from ISDN.

quoted 1 line 2 - Should I buy it?

>2 - Should I buy it?

for $15 or less, yes; over $18 requires trainspotter commitment, shop around. an article at http://www.hotwired.com/popfeatures/96/42/index0a.html may help make your mind up. dan..... ps, hotwired also has an articel on the Wipeout XL disk at http://www.hotwired.com/music/96/45/index2a.html

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, ben londa wrote:

quoted 5 lines okay. there has been much debate on how this ranks with their back

> okay. there has been much debate on how this ranks with their back > catalogue...i just have 2 questions: > 1 - Is it as good/better than/worse than Lifeforms? > 2 - Should I buy it? > -ben

1) It's different. The *production* sounds like a studio-compilation of sessions like ISDN. I noticed during the first listen that little subtlety is used. Most of the unidentifiable sounds are mixed up front, which makes for a great speaker-album (as opposed to a headphone album in which sounds are mixed to be a little more elusive). There's all kinds of neat little 90-second segments at the ends and beginnings of the songs. The albums strengths lie in its diversity. There's somethin' for everyone...even Run-DMC ("Rock!") 2) Yeah, go buy it, especially if you find the one with the book. no@h . . . . . . ...

Regarding FSOL and cohesiveness: Neither "ISDN" nor "Dead Cities" have the cohesiveness of "Lifeforms". One may find this aspect positive or negative. I consider it negative, as I admired, as one of the most distinctive talents of FSOL, the ability to create a cohesive and organic entity, where radically different elements would seamlessly mutate and evolve, so subtly that the listener hardly noticed the transformation - and then the shock that what one is listening to is completely different from what was experiencing minutes before, though the change had slipped by one's conscious detection. "ISDN" and "Dead Cities" focus on more of a traditional song format, which sacrifices that organic cohesiveness to more readily distinguished soundbytes. Zenon M. Feszczak Ambientologist

It's not FSOL. We talked about it last month. gonzi.