again Jon, i completely fucking agree with you....
the album is brilliant and very inventive and very thoughtfully produced
i think as well
polyrhythms are perfect...they're what really get me....
it seems to slag an album like this you just have to be looking to
dislike it......that's the only way I could ever review an album like
this and arrive at such awful conclusions.......listen to it again i say
to the reviewer...(not to promote...well, hell yeah, everyone get
high!!! this record is incredible high.....) It's music and it's beautiful
and it's original and it makes me
(and everyone who's heard it from me [a lot]) very very very happy....
J
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On Tue, 2 May 1995, Jon Drukman wrote:
quoted 71 lines Freaky Chakra - Lowdown Motivator CD (Astralwerks)> >Freaky Chakra - Lowdown Motivator CD (Astralwerks)
> > There is much to dislike about Freaky Chakra's debut album:
> >liberal use of trite, canned percussion effects,
>
> er, like what exactly? it all sounds pretty unique to me.
>
> >showboat guitar wanking
>
> the use of guitar is actually pretty minimal.
>
> >the hackneyed "Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven,"
>
> hackneyed?!? as far as i'm aware, the definition of hackneyed is
> "something that has been done before." if you've got a line on more stuff
> like "Budded", i want to know about it.
>
> >epic overproduction
>
> i suppose if you're used to listening to something like aphex twin that
> suddenly encountering a well-recorded and professionally produced LP can be
> quite a shock.
>
> >However, patient listeners will gradually learn to appreciate the
> >infectious energy and rich textures of the album's first two tunes.
>
> huh. i liked 'em right off the bat.
>
> >Both
> >demonstrate that Freaky Chakra's formula can work with the proper
> >attention to detail.
>
> this is just a sick statement. you have no idea how daum works - the guy
> is a fanatic. i can honestly say that i've never been pushed harder as a
> musician, sound programmer and engineer than when i worked with him. we
> did about a gazillion takes of the tracks i worked on precisely because of
> his attention to detail. i'd say "that was fine." he'd say "no it wasn't,
> we can do better, let's start over." he's driven.
>
> you may not like "peace fixation" (actually i prefer the funk mix to the
> album mix) but to casually claim that he's just throwing these things out
> there is ridiculous.
>
> >Inventive use of unconventional percussion, vocal
> >samples and colorfully crafted trebly oscillation buoy "Multiphasic
> >Invoculator" into the lively syncopated dub of "Big Aura."
>
> well gee thanks. (another example of attention to detail: we mixed big
> aura over and over because the echoplex "just wasn't quite right" each
> time...)
>
> >Lowdown
> >Motivator is unlikely to inspire your mind, but it may become a good
> >friend of your feet.
>
> personally i think it's the rare combination of dance music that works
> equally well as listening fodder and dancing fodder. there's TONS of
> sounds in there but they're never so cluttered that it becomes a noisy mess
> on a loud system. that sort of balancing act is quite rare and very
> difficult to pull off.
>
> anyway, i read this review to daum. his reaction was "tell this guy that
> me and mike kandel are gonna fly out there and sit on him while we play him
> grateful dead and lynyrd skynyrd records."
>
>
> Jon Drukman
> jsd@cyborganic.com
> I can tell you're cool because your water costs more than your beer.
>
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