On 3 Sep 1995, Helen Adriaens wrote:
quoted 8 lines ccue> Locust - Truth is Born of Arguments (Apollo) -> ccue> Locust - Truth is Born of Arguments (Apollo) -
> ccue> More varied than previous Van Hoen, with some
> ccue> agressive mechanical stuff and tracks that sound a bit like
> ccue> an updated version of Hassell and Eno's Possible Musics.
> ccue> Imaginative and technically sharp.
>
> I must have a listen to those records you mention, as I'm rather curious where
> Mark van Hoen gets his inspriration from.
I'm curious as to which tracks the comparison is being made to, since the
Locust album *is* so varied. I personally have become completely charmed
by The Optimist and have found nothing with a remotely similar atmosphere
outside of some select Dead Can Dance and Seefeel pieces, and even then
the comparison kind of flies out the window at times. It is one of the
most epic, majestic and rich songs I have ever heard. On the other hand
then there's Penetration, a hell of a song but I wouldn't think to place
the two tracks in the same category or even on the same album, though
this album does work perfectly.
quoted 2 lines His music has a certain special> His music has a certain special
> quality that I have yet to hear elsewhere ...
Some of it reminds me of what you might find somewheres outside idmland--
Skinny Puppy, early Wolfgang Press (even up to 1988 and Flood's brilliant
Bird Wood Cage remixes), some Legendary Pink Dots and Nurse with Wound.
These last two's more, um, challenging? work is at the very darkest end
of ambient bordering on pure shit noise, but some of it is very
effective. Steven Stapleton is a particularly genius noisemaker. Check
out NWW's _Thunder Perfect Mind_ or the Tear Garden's _Tired Eyes Slowly
Burning_ (Tear Garden being LPD's Edward Kaspel and SP's cEVIN Key) if
you don't mind hearing some good singing now and then. This last makes
for killer ambient and shouldn't be written off as Nettwerk-fodder
without a good listen or two. Really superb stuff.
Sorry if this is too I or not D enough. ;)
einexile