spin
march 99
some ugly bastard resides on the cover and on page 145
there is a label profile for vinylcommunications with some
snippets from the list's own kid-606. sadly, this issue is bagged
so instead of reading the short piece, i bought. its vc/606 so
i forgive myself.
urb
jan/feb 99
i thought urb was a pretty poor mag, but this issue is great, with
lots of stuffs to interest the idm listmember. short piece's on
autechre, vibert and squarepusher, all with some fairly nice pictures
to boot, some reveiws, including the last ninja tour and future primative
nights plus stuff we actually talk about here - schematics releases, fatcat,
ae remixes... and only a few things are a bit dated, most not released
yet. there's a look back at 98 through the eyes of artists including q-bert,
cut chemist, mixmaster mike, dj spooky and you get to find out what
liam howlett's fav release was last year - ok, who cares... but, there's
also the tiny interview with boc, with there favs (previously listed here)
a screenshot from the shaggar fraggar sessions (isp), a line about how
orbital have a new release out TOMMORROW in the uk, some global
comm info and even a flexi to boot. groovy.
interface
v.14
cool, if for no other reason buy this for the plans to make your
own distortion box. haven't checked the issue out much yet, but
there's a synth pop theme this issue (last was ambient music),
with additional features on laswell, meat beat manifesto, dj spooky
and aube. the nice thing about this is that there is enough hardware
and software info in here to make it interesting even if the synth pop
feature is the furtherest thing from your interests. the reviews are
diverse and there's got to be something in there worth reading for
everyone. groovy.
raygun
feb
special dj issue. cool. mix master mike, coldcut and more. if you
want to read about these guys this might be well worth the trip outside,
know what i mean?
pulse
feb
it would be amusing if i wrote more, at least for me, but i won't
because if you have nothing good to say you shouldn't say anything
at all, you know?
brap@sonic.net
icq_12645306
http://www.sonic.net/~brap/