BUY IT! It was one of my nominations for IDM album of the year. It's Alec
Empire doing intelligent electronica for Mille Plateaux (which is the
Cologne acid posse's IDM label) and it is phenomenal, twisted music. From
low-fi high-speed swung jazzy acid through high-speed old school darkside
hardcore through sampled bits of color commentators discussing Hakim
Olajuwan (sp?) doing his thing on the court interspersed with more
traditional IDM fare. Anybody who knows Alec Empire's history (first a
member of legendary ;) Cologne punk phenomenon Atari Teenage Riot and then a
member of the Force Inc. posse when that label was as its hardest, and now
artist du jour for Analog recordings) can tell you what looniness he's
capable of. It may not sound like your cup of tea, but I haven't found
anybody yet who doesn't think it's the bees' knees after a couple listens.
Plus the massively copyright-violating nature of the cover art is enough to
get a grin and a big thumbs up from me, even if it _did_ lead to the
remaining copies of the record getting pulled by the distributors after
Lucasfilm's lawyers cleared their collective throat.
Showing that SF's hordes of wannabe DJs still have a thing or two to learn,
I was able to pick up my copy for $5.99 (after it had been marked down
twice) from Rasputin's in Berkeley. East coast people who are having
difficulty finding copies there may want to drop me a line if they want me
to drift out there and look for another copy, because there were a few left
at that price last time I was there.
yrz,
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