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From:
Mark
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Date:
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:52:10 -0800
Subject:
Re: (idm) re: Boards of Canada
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Boards of Canada's peel session cd from Warp is damn horrible, for one reason: XYZ is not on it. Why cut the best (and unreleased) track from the radio session off the cd? Makes no sense to me, and i refuse to pay money for this disc. -mark "j.d." wrote:
quoted 26 lines Aquarius (version 3) *is* the Peel Sessions cut. It's really lovely -> Aquarius (version 3) *is* the Peel Sessions cut. It's really lovely - > much warmer and not so wintry as the album cut. Many more voices and > samples though. This whole 3-track CD is classic stuff, IMHO...I thought > I saw it being dismissed as "a disappointment" somewhere, probably the > Wire, but I really like it. > > Warp are issuing Peel Sessions from artists on > their roster regularly now, with a really pleasing minimalist theme to the > box design etc - much nicer than the 10+ albums! I think there's also > Autechre, Black Dog, and Plaid. There were two Aphex Twin ones planned, > allegedly, but I reckon they've probably been scrapped. Word was, they > were all very old stuff anyway. > > Meanwhile, backing Aquarius v3 is a *very* different, beautiful version > of Olson, which I prefer to the album cut, and a tune called Happy Cycling > which I think was on one of the earlier BoC albums, like "Twoism" or > something. Happy Cycling is worth the price of the CD alone: It's > simultaneously spooky and uplifting, with a weird Gyorgy Ligeti atonal > choir sample too, rather like the start of 2001 when the monolith > shows up. One of their most lovely melodies. Yes, this challenges the > might of Roygbiv! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
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