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From:
rb
To:
'Alan Lockett' ,
Date:
Wed, 10 May 2006 18:31:45 +0200
Subject:
RE: [idm] BoC - new EP
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wonderful! So how come no-one's been banging on about how cool'n'groovy / boring-old-farty, enrapturing / snooze-inducing, fresh'n'wild / same-old-same-old 'Trans Canada Highway' is? Could this be a sign of an IDM cultural climate change, indicating that IDM-peeps are no longer hanging on their every note or enigmatic squiggle to impute strange significances? I mean... what's the point of subscribing to this list if a guy can't get a mailbox full of people inchoately slavering over/whining about the latest emissions of their idols? Tsk. Call yourself an IDM-list - IDM SchmyDM... OK, you need someone to start the ball rolling, is that it? Right. 6 tracks: 1 you know, 'Dayvan Cowboy', as per the album (did you check that video? Yeah, video of guys surfing. Cool. If you like surfing, that is. If you don't. Not so cool. Last track is a remix by Odd Nosdam of the aforementioned track - a 9 minute oddyssey (geddit?) that traipses distractedly between some sort of smack-ambient noodle and hypno-drone-hop semi-propulsion with gaps in between, like he got bored and went off to make a cuppa and left the record button on (he did? aah.. *cool*). All very um... *odd*... In between there are '4 new tracks' none of which sound that new, but they're all OK. Bit like the album, really. You probably heard 'Skyliner' at bleep.com and it got you mildly aroused if not entirely creamed. Will that do to kick us off? OK, I know it's not Lester Bangs or Ian Penman or Kodwo Eshun, but hey... you got no excuse now. And don't give me that coy sh|t about release dates. You've got an internet connection haven't you... don't pretend you haven't already downloaded the whole thing P2P and proudly burnt it for all your mates. Yes, you there... alan ---------------------- Alan Lockett (Senior Language Co-ordinator - EFL) Language Centre, University of Bristol, 30-32 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol, BS8 1PY, UK tel: +44 (0)117 3310914 e-mail: Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org