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quoted 12 lines Nagging suspicions lead me to believe that your praising of Bill Leeb is

>> Nagging suspicions lead me to believe that your praising of Bill Leeb is >> only because his music is far more accessable that the experimental likes >> of Key. > > Yeah, he's gifted, but nagging suspicions also lead me to believe that you're > placing too high a premium on inaccessibility for its own sake. A LOT of > Cevin Key's recent music is a soupy mess of samples without much depth > or direction. Sure, Leeb can sound unbelievably stale at times and pillages > samples in jaw-droppingly brazen ways, but his best is better than most of > what Key's done in the last few years, IMVHO :-) > > Ur, I think Greg's turning green. Let's move on to something more listy.

Heh :-) Actually, I don't own a single Download recording. Sac re bleu! I've *heard* some of it, and I think a lot of people on this list should *hear* it, just to see what immaculate production techniques are possible, but the *music* just isn't my cup of tea. It *sounds* amazing, though. If I want sonically-dense, soupy-mess-o'-samples *with* some depth and direction, I know where to get it - I go over and press "Play" on that FSOL broadcast from last week. Here's something interesting, ah so how times change: aDuck is the solo project of Dwayne Goettel, inspired by the early releases of Aphex Twin and other artists in the now exploding European/UK electronic scene. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Two examples of Goettel's pounding Techno mayhem appear ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ on Paradigm Shift: "Power", which originally surfaced on the rare Subconscious debut 12" release in 1993, and "Burnout", a previously unavailable work. [Never knew Breakbeat was "pounding Techno mayhem" ... hrrrm - Ed.] plateaU is a new subCOUNSCIOUS signing of which very little is known, save that the driving force behind it (him? her? them?) seems to be the enigmatic Green Guy. Influenced in equal parts by the minimalism of Detroit House and the atmosphere of Amsterdam grass ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cafes, plateaU makes it's (his? her? their?) debut on this compilation with the trancey groove of "Grasshopper." ^^^^^^^ cEVIN Key, 1997 (Taken from Download/SubConscious Web pages, via Jon Drukman) "Greg, what the hell is this shit, you've gone DISCO on me!" cEVIN Key, 1993 (Taken from conversation in car as we listened to a mix tape) hehehehe ... - Greg