quoted 9 lines After getting some info from ozymandias, I've come to the conclusion that>> After getting some info from ozymandias, I've come to the conclusion that
>> the Techno Animal CD has no relation to RDJ or Seefeel, or any other note-
>> worthy IDM artists.
>
> Well, I'm glad mine didn't come with the damn sticker or it would have broken
> my expectations as well. Instead what I got was some head-splittingly cool
> psycho-hop with beats that demand your attention. No, it isn't AFX, nor is
> it Seefeel. I think Techno Animal is distinctly on their own (and very worth
> keeping).
As soemone else has undoubtedly already mentioned (I'm 300 e-mails behind),
Techno-Animal is a collaboration between Justin Broadrick (Godflesh et al.) and
Kevin Martin (God et al.). The first Techno Animal release, "Ghosts", was by
far my favorite album of whatever year it came out ('91?). Amazing. I don't
know how I'd classify it, although "Dark Ambient" is vaguely close. I haven't
heard the new one yet, however. Of course, back when "Ghosts" came out I was
still slightly more of an Industrial Rivet-Head than Techno-head, so I don't
know what I'd think of "Ghosts" in the context of what's happened since then.
I think it's safe to say that TA has some relation to Scorn, who are operating
around the peripheries of what we might stretch to label "IDM".
As for "psycho-hop", isn't that (tm) Meat Beat Manifesto? (-:
quoted 1 line This is the kind of stuff that Skinny Puppy should be producing now.> This is the kind of stuff that Skinny Puppy should be producing now.
'Cept they're dead (broke up June 12th), plus SP had vocals. You might be more
on the mark stating that about Download (the post-SP project), but what they've
been doing isn't remotely like psycho-hop. More like Just Plain Weird Shit. I
don't like it at all.
(Plus, if you say "what SP should be ... ", you'll get Ozy on yer case (-: )
- Greg