The Secret Life of Trace 3 / Namlook recs? / Gear-heads alert
Msg-Id:
<9407310711.AA01230@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
Mbox:
idm.9407.gz
An IDM DJ in L.A. played a track from the new Global Communication 2 nights
ago, and told me that it had just come into this particular store, so I
headed on in there tonight and expected to find it, only to be disappointed.
(Andy Thomas, did you snake the only copy? (-: )
What I found instead, among other things, was a new Secret Life of Trance III.
ObIDMcontent: There are tracks by Balil ("Rosery Pilots"), Air Liquide ("If
There Was No Gravity"), Syzygy ("Never Come Down"), Minimalistic Source (Pete
Namlook & Pascal F.E.O.S.), and an Irresistible Force mix of Transform's
"Transformation"; along with the usual suspects (Rising High Collective,
Oliver Leib's Paragliders, Art of Trance, etc.). This sucker is a quadruple
vinyl (couldn't find a CD, but I'm sure it'd be at least a double), and I
found it for under US $20, which ain't too bad for 4 slabs o' vinyl ...
I also picked up the Moonwater "In-Existence" release on Apollo (3923 CD).
Anyone know anything about this Maarten VD Vleuten dude that's behind it?
Other releases/nom-de-plumes/etc.?
I also found a few Namlook CDs that I hadn't seen before (just a reflection
on how rarely I see the inside of a record store, that's all). Had a hard
time deciding amongst them, but finally settled on the Namlook/Inoue
"2350 Broadway", mainly because it was a double CD for only a few more $$$
than the other two - the Namlook/Mixmaster Morris "Dreamfish" CD from last
year and the Definitive Ambient Collection 1 (Rising High edition). Did I
blow chunks or make the smart move? (For comparisons, I quite like most
of the Namlook/Atmo "Silence" release)
Finally, my brother-in-law found an almost-mint (one key has a slightly
un-sprung spring) Roland Juno-106 in a pawn shop for $250. Is that a good
deal? I know some of you are gear-heads out there ...
- Greg