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From:
Esa Ruoho
To:
kent williams
Cc:
Clint Anderson , CRAIG SIMPSON , Sham Beam , IDM
Date:
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:10:34 +0200
Subject:
Re: Squarepusher soundcloud posts mix: "Endless Framethrower 1.0"
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Music is One Rotted Note is so good. Budakhan Mindphone, too. He did some really sweet things like Varkatope - really dark and brooding things - what he's doing now is shinier and cleaner but somehow not as effective. Obviously he's great at what he does, but I want him to risk failure more. On 20 February 2015 at 17:35, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 103 lines I have the same issue with Venetian Snares. He's put out so much music,> I have the same issue with Venetian Snares. He's put out so much music, > and it's always excellent, but if you've made 10 CDs worth of excellent > Venetian Snares CDs, and you make an eleventh and it's basically the same > thing again, I'm not as excited to hear it. > > If you make a perfect CD, do something different even if half your fan > base doesn't like it, you're doing it right. > > As far as Squarepusher goes, "Music Is One Rotted Note" is a favorite, > because it isn't a shiny drill-core record. It's a re-imagining of "In A > Silent Way" era Miles Davis, only darker and rougher. That crappy spring > reverb ambiance makes it sound like he's playing inside a closed box car. > > Compared to the standared SQP aesthetic, it's just wrong. And sometimes > wrong is right. > > > On Fri Feb 20 2015 at 8:23:01 AM Clint Anderson <clinta@gmail.com> wrote: > >> thats sort of the thing with squarepusher, he had this incredible just >> mind-scorching output for years, culminating in the totally mind-blowing >> ultravisitor, i dunno hes set the bar pretty high for his own output and we >> sort of have an expectation... >> >> >> Clint Anderson >> Systems Engineer >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:10 AM, CRAIG SIMPSON <craignorms@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> re mix no Tundra, no dice as far as im concerned! >>> >>> >>> tom jenkinson could be accused and found guilty of a whole host of >>> heinous crimes and I would say to myself "yeah, but he did write >>> Tundra". >>> >>> whatever you say about the man, he did to that...should be on his >>> headstone >>> >>> (loved parts of Ufabulum btw but have not really liked anything since >>> ultravisitor) >>> >>> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:44:22 +1100 >>> > From: sham.beam@gmail.com >>> > To: clinta@gmail.com >>> > CC: idm@hyperreal.org >>> > Subject: Re: Squarepusher soundcloud posts mix: "Endless Framethrower >>> 1.0" >>> >>> > >>> > Yeah same here. There's been bits and pieces I've liked on the last >>> > couple releases but overall haven't got into it. >>> > >>> > >>> > On 2/20/2015 1:33 AM, Clint Anderson wrote: >>> > > anyone excited for the new squarepusher? >>> > > im sure itll be pretty decent >>> > > ive been a little 'eh' on his last few but i cant say they were 'bad' >>> > > just not what i was hoping for from him >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Clint Anderson >>> > > Systems Engineer >>> > > >>> > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Sham Beam <sham.beam@gmail.com >>> > > <mailto:sham.beam@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> > > >>> > > classic mix. :) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > On 2/19/2015 2:06 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote: >>> > > >>> > > https://soundcloud.com/__squarepusher/squarepusher-__endless >>> > > <https://soundcloud.com/squarepusher/squarepusher-endless> >>> > > >>> > > Also, some sort of squarepusher website: >>> > > http://squarepusher.net/ >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > >>> > > --- >>> > > http://twitter.com/esaruoho >>> > > http://lackluster.bandcamp.com >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > Sham Beam >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> >>
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