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Warp is selling two songs from "Do You Know Squarepusher?" on their website. It's 1 pound (US$1.55) for both songs, in MP3, MP4 or WMA formats (you can download all the formats if you want). I wanted to hear the new songs and haven't heard much Squarepusher recently (haven't bought much music in years unfortunately) so I figured that wasn't such a bad price. The two songs are F-Train and Anstromm Feck 4. F-Train is OK, IMO, interesting vocals but doesn't hit me real well. Anstromm Feck 4 is killer, though, I really like it. My favorite Squarepusher songs have always made me feel like I wasn't twitching quite enough to keep up, and this song does the same. Really great, I think. I don't have much new Squarepusher beyond Music is Rotted, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. There are a few songs on Music that I enjoyed but never go back to it again and again like Feed Me Weird Things or Hard Normal Daddy. Since I've already mentioned what I like, how are Selection Sixteen and Go Plastic? Those are the two big holes in my Sqpshr collection that I hope to fill soon. As far as the digital download thing, not bad.. price maybe is a little high, especially for two tracks that I'll pay for again later, but I'd pay about that much for some tracks that I can't buy elsewhere (unreleased or bonus songs, or whatever.) I'm not going to be buying preview tracks for every album I want, though, unless they're otherwise unavailable tracks or wildly cheaper than CD/vinyl/etc. For now, though, I'll put my money where my mouth is and support digital music for the labels that try, and the price was reasonable enough.. I've paid more for CD singles which sometimes don't have more than 2 tracks anyway, so it's OK in that respect. Quality (on the MP3s at least) was good, I think the site said 192k/s VBR, it seems to hover around 220k/s for most of the song and sounds fine to me. Anyone else have comments about the songs or the digital download execution? James np - Enough Records - Dreamers of Dreams (nice so far...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

|__.i decided to try out the digital downloads as well because i had the money avail and wanted to support the music i love . they sound yummy . woooo.__| _________///i_am_binarymind///___/// -----Original Message----- From: James Miskiewicz [mailto:jmiskiewicz@valleyforgepress.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:35 PM To: idm@hyperreal.org Subject: [idm] anyone buy the squarepusher digital downloads? Warp is selling two songs from "Do You Know Squarepusher?" on their website. It's 1 pound (US$1.55) for both songs, in MP3, MP4 or WMA formats (you can download all the formats if you want). I wanted to hear the new songs and haven't heard much Squarepusher recently (haven't bought much music in years unfortunately) so I figured that wasn't such a bad price. The two songs are F-Train and Anstromm Feck 4. F-Train is OK, IMO, interesting vocals but doesn't hit me real well. Anstromm Feck 4 is killer, though, I really like it. My favorite Squarepusher songs have always made me feel like I wasn't twitching quite enough to keep up, and this song does the same. Really great, I think. I don't have much new Squarepusher beyond Music is Rotted, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect. There are a few songs on Music that I enjoyed but never go back to it again and again like Feed Me Weird Things or Hard Normal Daddy. Since I've already mentioned what I like, how are Selection Sixteen and Go Plastic? Those are the two big holes in my Sqpshr collection that I hope to fill soon. As far as the digital download thing, not bad.. price maybe is a little high, especially for two tracks that I'll pay for again later, but I'd pay about that much for some tracks that I can't buy elsewhere (unreleased or bonus songs, or whatever.) I'm not going to be buying preview tracks for every album I want, though, unless they're otherwise unavailable tracks or wildly cheaper than CD/vinyl/etc. For now, though, I'll put my money where my mouth is and support digital music for the labels that try, and the price was reasonable enough.. I've paid more for CD singles which sometimes don't have more than 2 tracks anyway, so it's OK in that respect. Quality (on the MP3s at least) was good, I think the site said 192k/s VBR, it seems to hover around 220k/s for most of the song and sounds fine to me. Anyone else have comments about the songs or the digital download execution? James np - Enough Records - Dreamers of Dreams (nice so far...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

> Since I've already mentioned what I like, how are > Selection Sixteen and > Go Plastic? Those are the two big holes in my > Sqpshr collection that I > hope to fill soon. Selection 16 and Go Plastic are quite different. Selection 16 is probably my least favorite of any of Tom's work. If you could imagine out takes from Music is Rotted One Note and Big Loda then you'd have this album. There are a few moments, but most of the tracks are far too repetitious for his style. Go Plastic is great in my opinion. Not only because Rolling Stone gave it one star [a-hahahaha!!] but because it was put together so well. The actual song content doesn't quite reach Big Loda [his best, in my opinion] or Hard Normal Daddy status, but where that lacks he gains much ground with the quality of sound. This is probably one of the most professional sounding albums I've heard short of pop radio. I would love to know what kind of equipment he uses to process, etc. The new album seems to have a similar sound. If you like the sound of those two tracks on Warp, then you should certainly get Go Plastic. Its the type of album you'd imagine the guy spending hours tweaking 20-30 second segments on. This can be both good and bad. Perhaps that is why it doesn't sound as natural as Big Loda. Oh, and certainly look forward to the first track on Do You Know Squarepusher. It is (pretty much) the "Untitled" single he released a bit ago on warp [long out of stock], which is probably the best song ever written, dammit. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org