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Thus spake Mikko Karvonen:

quoted 5 lines My first one was Aphex' "...I care because you do" back in '95. I stil

> > > My first one was Aphex' "...I care because you do" back in '95. I still > think it's my best record. Really.. it kinda changed everything. >

As far as electronic music goes, I think I progressed from Kraftwerk in the mid-eighties trough new beat to acid in the late eighties. Around those times I picked up 808 State's "90", which was a sort of a wake-up call after all the silly rave stuff I had been playing. After a period of lull I started to buy records again with the consequence of my collection expanding with some Harthouse/Eye Q/Rising High/Sapho/Limbo/Warp records. Around 1992 or 1993 RePHLeX came into the picture, and there has been no turning back for me since with all the astounding releases they had back then. So I guess 808 State's "90" is the one for me, not counting the couple of previous years of some 20 to 30 records a year. "90" is still one of my favourites. Try "Magical Dream". Railway Raver's "Drop Acid Not Bombs" reminded me dearly of the early acid days. It is rather a humorous listen, but nothing to get really exited about. But as for Chaos AD's "Buzz Caner" - I thought I had heard everything Tom Jenkinson could do, but this album is so full of grit and grind that I just have to like it. Check out "Mindwar Electro" or "Generation Shit". It is like all the tracks had the instruments played with a sandblower. I have had Boards of Canada's "Music Has The Right To Children" playing on repeat for a couple of weeks now, and I am positively enthralled. There are just a few records that get a full-blown emotional response out of me (like Autechre's "Amber", still my favourite record of all time), and this is one of them. It is way up there with "Amber". There are a lot of records from the past 8 to 10 ten years that have made a difference in my life, but not one like "Amber". Since my girlfriend wanted to borrow it all the time, I had to marry her to get to listen to it. I think she got the better end of the stick because as a side-effect, she now has full-time access to my whole record collection. But I love her for it all the same. Although I am not much of a fan of drum and bass, I have received some rather interesting records in the past few months. Yunx's "Billodyssey" on Void and the Lithium Project EP on Clear, for instance. I think of all the few d'n'b records that I have the Lithium Project EP is one of the best with all the jazzy overtones (just listen to that guitar solo!) and the not too oppressive drum programming (like found on Squarepusher and Jega EPs - though I have grown quite fond of Jega's "Type Xero"). As for the straight bang-the-speakers records, the most interesting ones lately have been S.A.S.'s "Averslon" (a Sims/Dax release on Pure Plastic), Nico Awtsventin's "Nu Directions" on Rotation and Sims&Dax's "Rituals" on Theory. Also Rue East's "Summer of Blood" is rather interesting though at times, quite boring. All depends on the mood. Of course, I am anxiously waiting for Autechre's "5LP" as the RealAudio snippets on WarpNet do not give a clear picture of the record. If anyone has heard the Bola 7" on Skam (KMAS002), expressions please. I think I am digressing all over here. -- nuutti-iivari meril?inen -> gordon@diversion.org : diversion communications technostructuralist + information architect + media designer