quoted 3 lines So to pull this all back on topic, what's the best thing that ya'll>So to pull this all back on topic, what's the best thing that ya'll
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I'm not gushing over anything new this week, but here's some capsule reviews:
Thomas Jirku
"We Call Them Acids" (audio.nl)
I really liked his Entropy album of last year, and this continues in
a similar vein, kinda glitchy technoid falling apart and continuing
music. We get a shuffle track, a kind of industrial sounding darkish
throbber and a couple of other wiggly sputtering grooves.
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Metro Area (environ)
Sunny pop-house grooves with occasional wordless vocals and a spindly
(real) string section that can't be more than a quartet. god it's
good to hear real strings though, even if it's the Econo-Orchestra.
Kind of unremarkable on the one hand, and disarmingly infectious on
the other.
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Thomas Brinkmass/Heiko Laux "Tyranids" (art of perception)
From that series of records based on Warhammer (whatever that was, a
war game? a video game? something that has lent itself to the
hilariously kitsch imagery on the covers of these singles). Anyway,
I've only heard one other from this series (the Jorg Burger/Boachum
Welt) and it seems that most people are just turning in some extra
tracks they had laying around for this series. Brinkmann actually
seems to have taken the project to heart and has worked in a bunch of
monstrous samples for "Tyranids vs Space Wolves" (parts 1 and 2).
Part 1 is an intense techno banger with an agressive electric guitar
sample. Part 2 could find its way onto Martha Stewart's sounds for
Halloween, a collage of monster noises. It's fun, I like. Heiko Laux
turns in a decent if conventional techno track ("Invasion") and a
very Detroit-sounding track that is by turns Drexciyan and cheesey
soundtrack ("Hive Mind"); nice.
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Thomas Brinkmann "orange/green"
brinkmann is often referred to as a minimalist, not without reason
given the Studio 1 and Concept remixes, the Ernst singles and the
spartan tracks from the early phase of the women's names series.
Maybe there's still some reason to apply the label, but one strand of
his work, the techno side had been getting louder, harsher, busier.
Corvette, the Depeche Mode remix, Tyranids, the crescendos of his
live shows are blaring sonic pile ups that make his super-sparse
stuff seem to be simply part of a continuum from quiet to loud. the
long side of this single gives us a big dose of this heavier side. it
ends with the sound of audience applause, suggesting we have a 'live'
track here, but who knows. it sounds pretty polished at any rate. the
flip has a very nice Kraftwerk tribute with samples from "Numbers"
and another typical Brinkmann groover.
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Theo Parrish "Solitary Flight"
Like many Parrish singles, it's a DJ tool with more repetitions than
one necessarily wants for a sedentary, concentrated listen during
daylight hours. But what a great lick and what a strange,
melancholy/nostalgic feeling. Features a string orchestra loop from
some ballad, I guess, with a bit of bluesy piano, with Theo's usual
thumpy slo house rhythm and some detours into shimmering dissonances.
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