ahem,
the subject is meant to imply that i'm replying
to about 8 mails at once, so.. here goes.
--
'two-step garage' is a bit of a weird thing to
post a message on the idm-list about, definitely.
but i don't see it as symptomatic of the collapse
of the british colonial system or whatever brock
was rabbiting on about :) i always saw two-step
as the whole armani-suit 'sarf' london well-dressed
(over-dressed?) champagne ritzy club thang, rather
than any big underground experience. or is two-step
and speed garage not the same thing? allegedly confused
American house-ster Todd Edwards 'invented' speed garage,
right? How confusing.
Anyway, quite related to this is the fact that your
friend and mine Vim! has been kidnapped by evil No'Mo'
minions and forced to do a stoopid idm cut-up of 'two-step'
Artful Dodger tune - 'Rewind'. It appears to have metamorphed
into Vim! vs. Awful Dodgy - "Rehash" :)
the original (excerpt in realaudio, only the intro really..)
http://www.dotmusic.com/aspscripts/ramgen.asp?uri=rtsp://www3.dotmusic.com:554/artful_dodger/rewind.rm
the no'mo' remix experience:
ftp://mirror.support.nl/pub/mono/drfetid/vimva-r.mp3
(URL taken from
http://www.mono211.com/drfetid )
..just so you know :)
--
something rather cool - dunno if any listmembers have caught
this, but buying 25 bucks worth of music on
http://www.emusic.com
right now will get you some ok $15 headphones, some rather nice
$100 computer speakers (Logitech, no less..), and.. the music
you paid for in the first place :) this is officially 'a good deal'(tm)
for my $25, i picked up a bunch of FAX (a lot of the rare
FAX is on emusic.com of course..), including "Dreamfish 2",
and also the _gorgeous_ "To Ulrike M" by Doris Days on Dorado.
There's a Zero 7 remix on there that's even better than the
original, if that's possible. Who are Zero 7, and what else
have they done? (when i say i 'picked up' the music, btw, you
have 3 downloads of it as mp3s from emusic, that's how it
works.. and, my, it even benefits the artists who made the
tunes.)
--
Ah, I saw "Romeo Must Die" this weekend, and interestingly,
Timbaland co-authored the score. There's some real interesting
idm-ish percussive bits in the incidental music, actually. We
always talk about him on the list, so thought I'd mention him
again, hah..
--
Oh, and caught a party last night where the DJs were using
this amazing new Korg peripheral I hadn't seen before -
the Kaosspad - URL is:
http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=KAOSSPAD
..and it's a real-time effects unit with a touchpad you
can move your finger across in pretty creative ways. very
versatile and almost an instrument in its own right. And
it looks very space-age. mmm. must buy. oh, apparently it
doesn't have MIDI in, but ignore that and it's lovely :)
--
regards,
h0l
(http:/www.mono211.com - h0l@mono211.com)
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