On Sun, Dec 3, 1995, est@dcs.ed.ac.uk. (Ewan Thonger) wrote:
quoted 1 line Somebody else's chart mentioned Neil Landstrumm's "Brown By >August">Somebody else's chart mentioned Neil Landstrumm's "Brown By >August". Review
anyone please ? Or just some general impressions.
Here's an impression: SLAMMIN'. You'd think that it'd be more Dan Bell
rip-off minimalism, but on this record Landstrumm ups the ante by making the
shit harder and noisier than the usual DBX/Todd Sines fare, while keeping the
funky 909 patterns and evened-out speed (averaging 135-138 bpm). DEFINITELY
DJ-friendly, and ultimately the kind of shit that is usually antithetical to
this list. (BTW, if you remember the LTG Project 2x12" on Djax last year,
Landstrumm's record is everything that LTG tried to do, but couldn't pull
off: hard techno w/ house beats).
You know, when I started making records, I quit doing reviews of other
peoples'. But every so often such a kick-ass record comes out that I can't
keep my mouth shut...this is one of them...
ao