I think I brought up the Davis/Hancock influences in connection with the
Jenkinson jazz record. "Rotted Note" definitely ain't at the "Bitches
Brew/Live-Evil/Sextant" level but those are the influences being displayed.
I think its A-OK. Nope, there ain't no IDM on there.
BTW: The Wire review panned "Rotted Note" hard.
(I'll shut up now.)
quoted 23 lines when i 1st heard "hard normal daddy" i hated its flashy muso jazz prog rock>when i 1st heard "hard normal daddy" i hated its flashy muso jazz prog rock
>wankery, just couldn't understand it. and the acidy/electro melodies seemed
>somewhat ugly and lumpen compared to those sleek aphex washes. but the
>rhythmn and absolute spot on-ness of those apparently wild random drum
>breaks won me over. the sounds that had previously offended me became
>placeholders for the dynamics of the music, and stopped being so goddam
>irritatin. it is (unfortunately) mainly responsible for me being unable to
>hate jazz any more.
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>it sounds like he's made a jazz record. on his own, w/out the
>improvisational sparks that fuelled the records that influenced it. in that
>respect, and as someone who was playing bass in a pub rock band, and then
>spent 5 years doing acid, and d'n'b,it seems unfair to compare it to davis'
>and hancock's works which came many years into their careers. its already
>happened on this list and in the (don't mention the goddam) wire (again,
>please). i'm going to shut up now, 'till i actually get to hear the thing,
>but from the descriptions it doesn't sound like there's going to much 'idm
>content' on there, so why we even talking about it?
>
>-martin
>np: bugger all, can't wait to get home.
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