quoted 2 lines Blech. One of the best compilation/mix CDs ever, highlighting>Blech. One of the best compilation/mix CDs ever, highlighting
>new and old stuff from the label.
Highlighting new stuff, with a couple of token old tracks thrown in.
quoted 3 lines Red Snapper. Prince Blimey. A couple of irritating samples apart>Red Snapper. Prince Blimey. A couple of irritating samples apart
>("Last One") this is a great album and I doubt you'll find anything
>else like it around at the moment
Not having heard the album I can't argue with you, but I can ask in what
way it differs from all those records on Ninja Tune, Mo'Wax, and Wall of
Sound. (Not to mention all those acid-jazz labels I don't know the names
of.)
quoted 2 lines Squarepusher. Port Rhombus. And an album to come. Can it better>Squarepusher. Port Rhombus. And an album to come. Can it better
>"Feed me weird things"?
Let's hope so. Maybe he'll finally come up with some tracks that go somewhere.
("Ooh! Another one that goes cheesy bit-mad drums-cheesy bit!")
quoted 2 lines Apparently Warp have cranked up the quality>Apparently Warp have cranked up the quality
>control knob to unheard of levels for this one...
They'll have to have. Jenkinson has potential. That's all he's shown me so far.
quoted 1 line Mike Ink "Paroles". Wicked track.>Mike Ink "Paroles". Wicked track.
As wicked as "Bug in the Bassbin"? (To name another recently licensed track
that Warp probably could've picked up.)
quoted 2 lines Jimi Tenor. I guess not everyone is going to go for this stuff>Jimi Tenor. I guess not everyone is going to go for this stuff
>but he's great. A real showman and unique music!
Each to his own.
quoted 1 line As for new names, well Freeform, Mira Calix,>As for new names, well Freeform, Mira Calix,
What's the point? Don't they already *have* Autechre?
quoted 2 lines If you want a "direction" or "identity" then I think "innovation&>If you want a "direction" or "identity" then I think "innovation" sums
>it up.
I think you can split most recent Warp output into two groups:
post-Aphex/Autechre stuff (Freeform, Disjecta, RDJ and Ae themselves) and
"ironic" retropastiche (Tenor, Elecktroids, Slazenger). I'm not very
interested in either group - I have no need for knockoffs in the first case
(but I'll still buy the originals) and in the second case, as I've said before,
irony is no substitute for quality.
quoted 3 lines Too many labels fall into the trap of ending up with every>Too many labels fall into the trap of ending up with every
>release sounding the same, because that is what they think their
>customers expect.
See above - I think it's interesting that you dislike 'Music for Adverts'
since it's one of the few recent releases on Warp that doesn't fit either
of those moldy molds.
C.
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