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From:
Aaron Michelson
To:
Chris.Hilker
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Date:
Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:06:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:
Re: (idm) yet another MUSIC FOR ADVERTS post...
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On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Chris.Hilker wrote:
quoted 7 lines ...and most of them show as much development as tracks by some other artists> ...and most of them show as much development as tracks by some other artists > that go on three times as long. I've seen some people on the list complaining > that the tracks on this record don't get a chance to develop - I disagree: > they don't get a chance to repeat themselves. You could take ten tracks or so > at random from this album, and just by repeating sections to pad them out to > the standard idm length of six to eight minutes, you'd have an album people'd > be raving about, imho.
In a few cases this might be true, but there's so much filler on the album. Tracks like "Edgar Allen," "Strange Hill" (sounding very much like a blatant rip off of Hardfloor's "Hardtrance Acperience") "The Big Issue" and a few more just don't go anywhere. And the real gems, like "Euthanasia," "Disench" following by "Minour" just don't have the time to really explore the full potential of their musical form. Granted, the second half of the album is starting to grow on me...but i just don't like finding myself pressing the ">" button on my CD player to advance past to dull monotoneous filler. Maybe those are tracks for the commercial developers to fight over. Lame Thread Prevention in Effect: Aaron Michelson --------------------------------------------------------------------- aw-teck'r (autechre) "Everything you Know is Wrong." For reviews, interviews, art & trash http://www.io.org/~amichel/ amichel@io.org