---But, if you really wanna see where RDJ learned all his tricks, check out
---Asmus Tietchens first four Lps on Sky (Cluster's old label) from the early
---eighties... sounds like him to me!
---discreetly,
---l.b.
hello
i found this far too interesting a propostion to pass up... not just from
the stand-point of sounding like rdj, but because it sounded to me as
though i had overlooked an important development in electronic music
i scoured toronto's record stores, and i managed to find 1, the first lp
from '81 called biotop... and it's very cool indeed
i would have to admit that the rdj-isms are not as blatant as i had
expected from l.b.'s description (maybe it becomes more obvious with the
next 3?) but they are there... eerie, heavily-reverbed synth pads over
flanged/ring-mod/distorted drum machines... silly child-like melodies
the production is (surely out of neccessity) very flat and lo-fi, but in a
way that almost makes it sound contemporay... my friend and i listenned to
it right before playing the new twisted science ep, and both of us agreed
that several asmus tietchens tracks would not sound out of place on this
(or on a # of leaf recordings actually)
i'll tell you who i think has listenned to a lot of this lp -
pram - this is without a doubt - blipetty cr-78-like drum machines with
sci-fi synth melodies
mark van hoen - weathered well/natural composite-era, brooding, lo-fi
(probably using the same type of effects) repetitive sound-scapes
autocreation - same reasons as mvh, there is actually a track that reminds
me of autocreation's caught short
farmers manual - i always have an impossible time trying to describe
farmers manual, all i can say is that just as i was thinking it sounded
like them, the record ended in a locked groove (for those of you that have
heard the mego ep, you'll know what i mean)
for those of you who are a bit weary about the krautrock/noise/70s
connotations of cluster (not to dis this stuff, i'm just trying to say that
i'm more bochum welt and autechre than faust and merzbow, you know?), there
are no acoustic instruments here, only one track has vocals (which are very
weird and interesting anyways), and there are beats and melodies
anyways, thank-you linus for this info (do you have more tricks like this
up your sleeve?)
for those who are interested, i know that asmus tietchens has continued to
make music, but i'm under the impression that it's more experimental (ie.
he's collaborated with merzbow) so if your taste is like mine, you'll want
to stick with the first four lps from 81-83
i'm also pretty sure that these lps are hard to come by, so if anyone wants
to do a tape exchange with me that would be cool (and if you don't have
human league's dignity of labour, the topic that led to asmus tietchens,
the 2 would go very well together on a tape)
solvent@interlog.com
goodbye