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PRICED@vax.lse.ac.uk writes:

quoted 5 lines there's an album out by someone/thing called drax, its called 'red' and

>there's an album out by someone/thing called drax, its called 'red' and >comes, indeed, in a very fetching matt red casing. Its on trope >records if thats any help, and i think its german. > >Any info? ie is it any good?

here goes your german idm-subscriber again: "drax" is one of the hundreds or so names of thomas heckmann, most commonly known as "exit 100" or "age". trope records is his own label and studio in mainz. recently i heard a new drax release (10 inch, on weird almost clear vinyl without label); i don't know if that was (part of) "red", it sounded like most of his recent stuff: hard, acid, with sounds somehow reminiscent of eighties-electro-pop (maybe it's the way deutsch-amerikanische freundschaft, if someone remembers them (1981), should sound today), but as i said, hard. nevertheless, complex structure abound. heckmann is versatile, though; his releases on force inc. include funny breakbeat and quite trance/ambient-oriented material as well, and you can't even go by the names, so i'm afraid you'll have to try and have a listen to it before (which is no problem in (dj-oriented) shops over here...is that different with you?). upshot: it might not be your style, but i'm sure it's quality. heckmann is unique. (intelligent yes, dance yes, idm no. too bad idm is really the name of a style, time and again this confuses people on this list who feel the need to argue for the fact that hard and intelligent are compatible. ...but let's settle this here, right at this moment i'm getting dark stranger's breakbeat mailing list proposal. great idea. maybe there's more interest for the force inc. discography i'm dying to do *there*... hint: there's a new sublabel of force inc. called "virtual science" which is for "intelligent" style releases. two so far, quite good. still, hard.) peace, p.