I just picked up the "Additional Productions" cd today and it sounds very
good. One problem though, my buddy told me that !K7 usually puts their
stuff out domestic, but I paid 22 bucks for mine (the usual import price
at my local store). Did they pull a fast one on me or what?
--nick--
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:59:11 +0100 (BST) Jonathan Tedds
<jat@ast.leeds.ac.uk> writes:
quoted 46 lines Funkstorung
>
> Funkstorung
> London King's Cross Crossbar
>
> It's quite a name to drop - and not just
> because saying 'Funkstorung' a lot is
> good fun. These two men are probably best
> known for Bjork's favourite remix of 'All
> Is Full Of Love', but Funkstorung (that's
> 'radio interference', to you) have also
> smoothed out countless other tracks with
> their computer love since meeting in '92.
>
> Tonight is Funkstorung's live UK debut,
> and so it's difficult to know what to
> expect. Until now, the German duo have
> mostly been known as remixers: wriggling
> with ideas, slick with pristine dynamics
> and crazy-paved beats, all of which
> surface on their ace 'Additional
> Productions' mix compilation. As it is,
> we don't recognise a note because
> tonight's tracks are all new,
> as-yet-unnamed productions, hewn from
> their own musical quarries.
> [Image]
> They are unmistakably ace, though.
> Abstract shivers and disarrayed pops
>
> gradually right themselves into killer
> grooves; indelibly lovely shimmers morph
> into steely breakdowns. It's complicated
> [Image] stuff, but irresistibly spring-heeled.
> The frequent comparisons Funkstorung get
> to Warp artists are justified - like when
> Funkstorung's sneaky rhythms start to
> slip and slide like an Aphex Twin track
> [Image] might. But there are moments when Michael
> Fakesch (tall) and Chris De Luca (small)
> twist and bend tones over lathered-up
> beats like Orbital might if they were
> playing Kraftwerk. Essentially,
> wunderbar.
> [Image]
> Kitty Empire
>
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