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Re-view: Björk / Homogenic / Mother Records / 539 178-2 / Releasedate: 09.26 (tomorrow!) Tracks: Hunter Jóga Unravel Bachelorette All Neon Like 5 Years Immature Alarm Call Pluto All Is Full Of Love Little Gudmundsdottir is back. "I'm so bored of cowards" Björk exclaims in the 6th track, and at the same time makes it pretty obvious that she really means it. Accompanied by the heaviest electro/ industrial/whatever groove ever in a Björk track courtesy Mark Bell she's doing something that not many artist with a constant presence in the top-10 would do. This lady is pure magic, from Gling Gló to Debut to Post to the more or less brilliant Telegram to this there has been a constant transformation. Of course "Homogenic" lives up to everyones expectations, tracks like

quoted 1 line Jóga<<, >>Unravel<<, >>Hunter<< or >>Bachelorette<&

>>Jóga<<, >>Unravel<<, >>Hunter<< or >>Bachelorette<< are actually some of

the most beautiful tracks I've heard from this icelandic polarstar. Makes me want to give away all my cold and harsh Mururoa/IndustrialFolkSongs/Mask stuff; this is music that MOVES YOU. On most of the tracks the orchestration is by Deodato (some of you might recognize this name from the "Isobel" EP) and the very gentle strings in contrast to the hard beats makes things really interesting - really fucking brilliant actually, I take it most of you've already heard the >>Jóga<< single, which is the best proof of all that Björk has got something special in her fingers. It's getting quite crowded up ther now, but this album has it's place among the other killers of 1997; maPOd, Chiastic Slide, Hard Normal Daddy, Black Dog Live 1997 - >>Homogenic<< doesn't deserve anything less than that. Some tracks are mixed and some are produced by Howard Bernstein, beats/noices and programming by Mark Bell. I didn't like much of what Mark Bell did with LFO, but his work on this album is remarkable. I don't see any mention of Plaid anywhere... The earlier albums from Björk were founded on a neverending eclectism and Björk went like a bullet between different genres of music, flirting with Jazz here and D&B there. This album is indeed more "homogenic", it's based on rhythms and it's not as varied as the earlier "Post" or "Debut". There's no BigBandBrass like on "It's Oh So Quiet", no standards like "Like Someone In Love". No real surprises in the single compositions. However, everything is so very brilliantly arranged and composed that it doesn't really matter. Of course there is exceptions here as well, for example >>Pluto<< is unbearable, totally terrible, unlistenable. Björk is bored with cowards and she's fucking lightyears away from becoming one. I'd say get lost you "undergrounders", this is far more daring than Cylob, Freeform or Music Aus Strom will ever be. Open up, this is: True beauty, True brilliance. Fe. - sale/wants: http://gargamel.com/frankie ''' = ) - =-= = '''''''''' - - plodilism!: http://gargamel.com/plod -->--> -/ - - - ] '''''''' - - dot records: http://gargamel.com/dot '''''' = -.. =-= = '''''''''' -

quoted 7 lines Björk is bored with cowards and she's fucking lightyears away from becoming

> Björk is bored with cowards and she's fucking lightyears away from becoming > one. > I'd say get lost you "undergrounders", this is far more daring than Cylob, > Freeform or Music Aus Strom will ever be. Open up, this is: > > True beauty, > True brilliance.

A-hem. Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars. Cylob: One geezer in his bedroom. And he has a day job. You tell me who deserves more respect. -gonzi.

Gonzi Merchan writes:

quoted 3 lines Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars.

> Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars. > Cylob: One geezer in his bedroom. And he has a day job. > You tell me who deserves more respect.

whatever. "team bjork" produces better music than cylob. so sorry. i don't care who's behind it or what it costs. the bottom line is the results. what if an infinite number of monkeys wrote the best idm tune ever ... hey, not only COULD it happen, but by the laws of probability, it HAS to happen! -- Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com SpotMedia Communications ...I was an infinitely hot and dense dot...

quoted 1 line "Random" == Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com> writes:

>>>>> "Random" == Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com> writes:

Random> what if an infinite number of monkeys wrote the best idm Random> tune ever ... hey, not only COULD it happen, but by the Random> laws of probability, it HAS to happen! Firstly, there is no such thing as an infinite number of monkeys. Infinity is a construct of the human mind. Secondly, the best IDM song doesn't exist. No matter what MTV or Billboard or whoever would have you believe, there is no best song. Any quest to create better music than XYZ is inherently dommed to failure. Anyone ever stop to think that maybe everyone else is right, and our taste in music is up our arses? It's at least worth a thought. -hjw "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

Irene McC wrote:

quoted 5 lines Firstly, there is no such thing as an infinite number of monkeys.

> > Firstly, there is no such thing as an infinite number of monkeys. > > Infinity is a construct of the human mind. > > Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human > stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

And the winner of the IDM-Quote-Of-The Month award is...

quoted 10 lines A-hem.

>A-hem. > >Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars. > >Cylob: One geezer in his bedroom. And he has a day job. > >You tell me who deserves more respect. > >-gonzi. >

none of them do. its not the way you MAKE the music or the money you put in it, both artists deserve respect under their own terms. jifb

At 10:24 AM 9/26/97 -0400, jif wrote:

quoted 17 lines A-hem.

>>A-hem. >> >>Bjork: 100 'producers' and 'collaborators.' 10 zillion dollars. >> >>Cylob: One geezer in his bedroom. And he has a day job. >> >>You tell me who deserves more respect. >> >>-gonzi. >> > > >none of them do. its not the way you MAKE the music or the money you put in >it, both artists deserve respect under their own terms. > > >jifb

that's the thing.. .bjork doesn't have her own terms. she's got howie b's, tricky's, graham massey's terms... - wells oliver / s0ewoliv@titan.vcu.edu " bored? no, i wasn't bored. i'm never bored. that's the trouble with everybody, you're all so bored. you've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it. you've had the living body explained to and you're bored with it. you've had the universe explained to you and bored with it. so now you just want cheap thrills and like plenty of them. and it doesn't matter how taudry or vacuous they they are, as long as it's new, as long as it's new; as long as it flashes and beeps in forty different colors... whatever else you can say about me, i'm not bored." - mike leigh's "naked"