Subject: (amb) v/a "8, 8.5, 9 remixes" (fat cat)
| just got a shipment of music and this release really stands out. i must
have
| missed any mention of it around these parts- what a brilliant cd.
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here's my review posted on this list December 14.
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I'd just like to say a few words about this beautiful disc.
As many of you know, Various Artists is an artist or a group that's made
singles and an album (Decay Product) on Chain Reaction.
So you can probably draw one wee conclusion:
It's got that German Minimalist/Dub/Techno vibe.
I like my Decay Product disc just fine.
I like this new one a whole lot more.
If you're a fan of Maurizio's self-titled disc of edits and remixes, or if
you like the "kind of progressive unmooring of the rhythmic centre of
gravity of a groove/piece" (as Alan Lockett said when speaking of Fluxion's
_Vibrant Forms_) then I think you would eat this up whole. Overall the lead
instrument is the bass, so this disc sounds wonderful through subwoofers, or
through headphones. It's very well recorded. The bass goes through some
wonderful slow rhythmic progressions, accompanied and enhanced by other
rhythmic structures and percussion that comes and goes, altering that center
of gravity, until you're just mesmerized. I've spent the last couple days
in court on jury duty, and I can tell you this: it's _excellent_ music to
listen to while waiting for something to happen. You won't be bored.
This for me is elegant music, definitely in my top ten of 1999.
There are 3 basic tracks, and each is remixed, perhaps by an artist you may
have heard of: Arovane, Funkstorung, Autechre, Pole and Monolake.
The disc totals over 64 minutes, and it's all lovely.
I got mine from David Hodgson at PBE.
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the
| overall mood reminds me of monolake's desert ep, kind of dusty (yeah,
yeah-
| no pun intended), night travel music. the funkstorung remix here seems
more
| delicate than other remixes i've heard, which fits in perfectly.
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Glad you're enjoying this disc.
The Arovane remix is my favorite
Edward
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