I second that motion. Two outstanding Electro releases.
Beautiful stuff, definitely check them out if you can.
I don't personally hear any resemblance what-so-ever to B-12 or Black
Dog,
two outfits I don't have much patience for. The 'melodies' never get
saccharine
like with B-12, and the beats never get 'chemical brothers' like w/ dog.
Simulant's stuff is quite a bit moodier, and subtler, the way few
Electro cuts manage
to be; both sparse and full at the same time. Very funky as well- sounds
kind of like an
older sadder R2-D2, with one foot in the 70's, and the other in, well, a
galaxy far far away.
Just throwing another log on the fire,
Christophe
AeOtaku@aol.com wrote:
quoted 26 lines Everybody out there should check out Simulant's
> Everybody out there should check out Simulant's
> brain-blowing new 12" on their own Scopex label,
> "Out of Ether", a follow-up to their debut "Simm City"
> which came out like two years ago. If all their 12"s
> are this good I should hope we don't have to wait two
> years for the next one. This label seems primed to
> be another fairly obscure but fanatically collected UK
> label (ala A.R.T., Likemind, Black Dog, Void, B12)
> but let's hope enough people check it out so they
> really get some publicity now. This record is mainly
> an electro-techno record, but is really the next step beyond
> Drexciya and UR which in itself was the next step
> beyond Kraftwerk. It's so hard to be good at electro
> (i.e. beyond one-shot novelty listen) but when you
> do it right, you're golden. I got as excited hearing this
> record yesterday as I did when I first heard the
> Molecular Enhancement 12". Lots of development, funk,
> beautiful Dog-esque melody lines and certainly
> something to hook, contain and accomodate
> most tastes. Check it out!
>
> Matt
>
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