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From:
Alan M. Parry
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Fri, 23 Dec 1994 10:36:02 -0800 (PST)
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Not sure if i've forwarded this one already - fluid Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 14:02:19 +0000 (GMT) From: CiM <u9323899@sys.uea.ac.uk> Subject: Lotsa stuff To: IDM <idm@hyperreal.com> I'm going home tomorrow so have an intelligent Xmas y'all. Here are some present ideas for your loved ones... Appaloosa : ? (Recoil) Mark Pritchard (Reload, GC, ...) goes all jungle on us. Thats no problem tho' because its all _very_ nice indeed. If you took away the jungle breaks and used more industrial sounds, you'd have some tracks straight off of _A Collection of Short Stories_. As it is you get some amazingly tight jungle beats, much harder and crisper than most jungle. Yum. Vapourspace : Vista Humana (Internal promo) A bit disappointing this one; all the remixes, well, suck would define it quite easily. The Sleepwalker mix is vaguely okay-ish, being quite an 'up' remix (reminds me of Speedy J for some reason). The live mix of _Gravitational..._ tensed to sweeten the whole package but is far from essential. Nuages : Blanc EP (F Communications) An astounding minimal house EP from top geezer Ludovic Navarre and his label mate Shazz. Distantly acidic, minimal beats, abounding lushness; its all amazing stuff. Really uplifting too. All techno snobs (like me) should get a dose of this... [Various] : Pulse Four (Jumpin' and Pumpin) Another old FSOL release I picked up. This one is the best of the bunch; driving techno in an _Accelerator_ style. _Space Virus_ is the sound of a nasty analog synth, having a shit on a breakbeat. Visceral. Sensurreal : Launch When Ready (Beam Me Up!) Noisy, house on the A side; okay but nowt special. Flip it over for a hard dubby, clattering techno beat and then a gorgeous techno/house hybrid that virtually demands that you dance. On your feet _now_, boy. "I'm not the kid screaming in the park; that wasn't me" - Gary Cobain denying the whole kid/park/scream scandal in Rave New World :-) || [CiM] || u9323899@sys.uea.ac.uk || http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~u9323899/