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quoted 2 lines Hi...with the review archives @ hyperreal down I'm hankering for

> Hi...with the review archives @ hyperreal down I'm hankering for > some opinions on the following and hoping someone out there will oblige.

quoted 2 lines Atom Heart / P. Namlook

> Atom Heart / P. Namlook > Jet Chamber

Really spacey ambient with the micro-clicky-percussion of AH coming in and out.

quoted 2 lines B. Laswell / Atom Heart / T. Inoue

> B. Laswell / Atom Heart / T. Inoue > Second Nature

In the same vein but w/o the clicks. BTW, neither of the above are particularly good--I've heard better from all four of them. Laswell's recent Silent Recoil Dub System One was really excellent.

quoted 2 lines Lassigue Bendthaus

> Lassigue Bendthaus > Semi-Acoustic Nature

This is not really a LB disc (well, although LB and AH are the same person, he normally reserves the LB name for the more dark industrial-ish stuff.) So it's really an AH album. If you like the other AH stuff on Rather Interesting you'll like this. The beats are a little meatier than the more recent BASS and Silver Sound. Ashok

On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, Ashok Divakaran 39191 wrote:

quoted 4 lines B. Laswell / Atom Heart / T. Inoue

> > B. Laswell / Atom Heart / T. Inoue > > Second Nature > > In the same vein [as Jet Chamber] but w/o the clicks.

I disagree. Jet Chamber is more trancey. The idea behind SECOND NATURE is as it's title suggests, a 'Second Nature' - a synthetic/ electronic version of one of those nature tapes you can buy in health food stores. For example, here are some of the song titles: "Synthetic Forest" and "Artificial Seaside". A lot of my friends hate it because of this. I really dig it personally... the sounds of crickets, birds, the ocean - all artificially created. With no MSG. The thing that differentiates it from the put-you-to-sleep genre of the 'new age' idea is (of course) the Uwe Schmidt (AH) and Tetsu Inoue influence - heavy industro beats rolling in and out of an ambient landscape, which ends up bringing it all together. Hell, the clicks and rumbling bass makes it all worth-while. It kind of reminds me of "Mu" by MPA, but more up-beat and less experimental. Oh, and there are only four tracks, ranging from 6+ to 16+ to 28+ minutes.

quoted 2 lines BTW, neither of the above are particularly good--I've heard better from

> BTW, neither of the above are particularly good--I've heard better from > all four of them.

Hm. There are of course better outings, but I dig them all the same.

quoted 6 lines Lassigue Bendthaus

> > Lassigue Bendthaus > > Semi-Acoustic Nature > > If you like the other AH stuff on Rather Interesting you'll like this. > The beats are a little meatier than the more recent BASS and Silver > Sound.

Ala VSVN... kohsa. christopher miller evil@ddi.digital.net