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quoted 18 lines I have installments 3 and 4, mostly dark ambient and noisy, weird

> >I have installments 3 and 4, mostly dark ambient and noisy, weird > >experimental tracks, a Gas track on each, etc. There's a few tracks of more > >mediocre dancey material on volume 3, I'd go straight to 4! Definitely it's > >worth picking up in my opinion. 3 CDs with some great tracks. > > > > I wholeheartedly agree with john, M&T vol 4 is an > excellent 3xcd comp of dark electronica/techno/breaks/ > ambeince/experimental music from the likes of Gas, > Thomas Koner, Kim Cascone, Low Res, Mouse on > Mars, Lithops, SND, Thomas Brinkmann, Curd Duca, > Rehberg & Bauer, Techno Animal, DJ Spooky, Pluramon, > Ryoji Ikeda, Scanner, Noto, Steel, Andy Mellwig, > Kerosene, Thomas Heckmann, Philus, and Freiland to > name a few. I believe many of these tracks are previously > unreleased too. M&T vol 3 has a similar lineup and sound > too. Both are well worth checking out if you're into the > more dark experimental side of things.

is it just me, or does anyone else think that m&t4 could have been one *really* good single cd, or possibly a double cd? i think three was a bit too much and the majority of the tracks on there are really mediocre...sure there were some touches of brilliance...the terre thaemlitz, snd, mouse on mars, philus were quite fantastic...however others there really dissapointing...rehberg&bauer a ryoji ikeda, two of my favorites were pretty off...and i wonder if anyone else noticed this...but it seems that although there was a noticable lack of a track by oval, it seemed as though the other artists were trying to make up for his absence...? (there seemed to be alot of oval-eque tracks if you ask me...) the first cd of the set i prefer...the others you kind of have to skip around... my neighbors are having sex again... -joshua... -joshua...

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quoted 26 lines I wholeheartedly agree with john, M&T vol 4 is an

>> >> I wholeheartedly agree with john, M&T vol 4 is an >> excellent 3xcd comp of dark electronica/techno/breaks/ >> ambeince/experimental music from the likes of Gas, >> Thomas Koner, Kim Cascone, Low Res, Mouse on >> Mars, Lithops, SND, Thomas Brinkmann, Curd Duca, >> Rehberg & Bauer, Techno Animal, DJ Spooky, Pluramon, >> Ryoji Ikeda, Scanner, Noto, Steel, Andy Mellwig, >> Kerosene, Thomas Heckmann, Philus, and Freiland to >> name a few. I believe many of these tracks are previously >> unreleased too. M&T vol 3 has a similar lineup and sound >> too. Both are well worth checking out if you're into the >> more dark experimental side of things. > >is it just me, or does anyone else think that m&t4 could have been one >*really* good single cd, or possibly a double cd? i think three was a >bit too much and the majority of the tracks on there are really >mediocre...sure there were some touches of brilliance...the terre >thaemlitz, snd, mouse on mars, philus were quite fantastic...however >others there really dissapointing...rehberg&bauer a ryoji ikeda, two of >my favorites were pretty off...and i wonder if anyone else noticed >this...but it seems that although there was a noticable lack of a track >by oval, it seemed as though the other artists were trying to make up >for his absence...? (there seemed to be alot of oval-eque tracks if you >ask me...) >

I agree that this could have easily been condensed into a 2xcd compilation and still been good but i dont mind the extra tracks because it exposes me to some artists i was not previously familiar with. Even if the tracks are sub-par, they still give me a taste of what that artist is trying to do and i can decide from there whether i want to see what else that artist has done. For me that's what compilations are all about - an inexpensive way of hearing new artists/labels without having to buy entire releaes by those artists/labels.

quoted 3 lines the first cd of the set i prefer...the others you kind of have to skip

>the first cd of the set i prefer...the others you kind of have to skip >around... >

Yes, cd1 is my favorite as well with the tracks by Thaemlitz, Christophe Charles, Low Res, Mouse on Mars, Lithops, SND, Brinkmann, Philus, and Brusseler Platz.

quoted 2 lines my neighbors are having sex again...

>my neighbors are having sex again... >

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