Jon was kind enough to do a fairly comprehensive review of the EMP
CD, and as on one else has done so yet, I'm forwarding it.
EMP is STILL Available, see
http://soli.inav.net/~kent/emp.html
I'm selling it for $10 postage paid; or $5 and a tape of your own
music. David Talento (legion@voicenet.com) has been cutting deals on
them for bits of music gear, if you can believe that ;-)
P.S. BUY THREADS from fluid@hyperreal.com as well.
P.P.S. A cassete-only release from Ememrgent Behavior "Local Maxima"
available now, check
http://soli.inav.net/~kent/music.html
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:33:07 -0700
From: Jon Drukman <jsd@cyborganic.com>
To: Kent Williams <kent@inav.net>
Subject: Re: emp
REVIEW TIME... forward as appropriate...
SQUISHY: A nice mismash of styles and influences with excellent production
(although the drums are a little thin and static for me). The opening
melodic motif is very Tdreamy, then the production kinda hints at Jarre,
then when the drums come in it's sorta Kraftwerky... End result, nice and
melodic with some tasty ambienty noises. A little "digital" for such a
combination of classic influences but not too bad.
PURE GAMMA: Pure Tangerine Dream, late 70's. You can tell he REALLY wants
a Mellotron to be playing those big strings. Still, he's got the sound
down to a T. The analog pulsing sequence thingie is dead on, and the
switch around 4:27 is totally perfect. It's eerie! This guy is really
Chris Franke in disguise, right?
ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE: Reminds me of Delerium, specially what with the vocal
sample. Drums are a bit muddy, could use some more top. Lemmee guess,
DR660? Nice but it ends just as it's getting going.
DESTOK: Again, a more digital version of late 70's Tdream (maybe more on
the Klaus Schulze side). Berlin school in full effect boyeee. Nice.
STUDIO 893: Ah yes, breakbeats. That's more like it. The fill is a little
jarring, the timbales don't seem to quite fit. The arppegiated bits are
cool but the stabby organish lead thing doesn't quite work, it doesn't seem
to flow as well as it could. Still, gotta love a fellow K2000 maniac.
MARK PULVER: Jean-Michel Jarre, absolutely 100%. Reminds me a lot of
something off "revolutions". Produced pretty well although I expected a
few more "sprinkly bits" what with it being a jarre homage and all... Nice
changeup towards the end, it sorta morphs into Tdream.
SWEEPING THE NOISE FLOOR: Get this guy together with Namlook... NOW.
EMERGENT BEHAVIOR: Even if the song sucked, I would have to give it a
thumbs up because anybody who samples Homer Simpson going "forbidden donut"
just wins on style alone. Fortunately, it doesn't suck. However, buy
yourself a good compressor right now. You won't believe the difference
it'll make. If the drums punched harder you'd have a dancefloor hit. What
kind of setup do you have anyway? There's a million little changes I'd
make to the mix. The big chordal string should have some kind of chorus or
phaser on them to make them sweep more. The weird background texture
should be louder, boost the midrange and drop the low end so it is more
prominent but doesn't interfere with the bass/drums. Etc...
LX RUDIS: Nice techno/trance groove but the production is all wrong for
dance music. The main kick/snare thing sounds like someone's idea of what
dance club music is like without having been to too many dance clubs
(although the breakdown to just the ticky 808-ish snare is very good). The
more industrial noisey bits are even better though. More of them, less of
the rigid drumming.
RIC MILLER: Kraftwerk on Line 2 with a look 'n' feel lawsuit, Mr Miller...
MARK PULVER: Another interesting Jarre meets Tdream hybrid. The drum stuff
bugs me though, a little too rigid and in yer face about its
drummachineeyness. Know what i mean?
LX RUDIS: Reminds me of Philip Glass what with all the repeating figures.
But I don't like Philip Glass that much.
STUDIO 893: Very cool 'n stylish ambienty but rhythmic piece. I likes.
And, unlike most of the other pieces, it isn't trying to be anything other
than what it is, so it can't be compared unfavorably to something else.
Great.
quoted 4 lines Nope. Routers are supposed to be simple ;-) it has a gozinta where
>Nope. Routers are supposed to be simple ;-) it has a gozinta where
>you hook it to the outside world, and a comezouta where you hang your
>network. It just needs to know a few IP addresses (it's own, for one)
>and then it just works, right?
that's a regular network router. we have one of those and it works fine.
plus it's a cisco so lots of people understand it. unfortunately for our
isdn network we have a bunch of ascend routers and they all suck. plus
they don't give you any information when they don't like their
configuration, they just hang up peremptorily.
quoted 3 lines BTW I just made a 'DJ mix tape' for my brother that's hilarious, since
>BTW I just made a 'DJ mix tape' for my brother that's hilarious, since
>I can barely beatmatch on good tables, and the two I have to work with
>suck nun's cunts. I cringe at every mix...
ha. i am under a lot of pressure to do the perfect mix tape now cos my
agent thinks he can get me tons of gigs overseas if i give him a really
spiffing 90 minute mix.
plus yet another guy from the net randomly asked me if i wanted to dj for a
party. so weird. i don't advertise myself as a dj anywhere that i know of
but every month or so some net dude says "hey we're doing a party and we
want to get you in for it." so far none of them have panned out.... maybe
this one will be different... (sure)
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