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1999-04-19 09:28CheAt 03:03 PM 4/17/99 -0500, Moonlight wrote: >Speaking of T-Power, I was really impressed w

From:: Che <zeus8@synthcom.com>
To:: Intelligent Dumb Music <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: TPower (Re: (idm) Voda)

At 03:03 PM 4/17/99 -0500, Moonlight wrote:

quoted 3 lines Speaking of T-Power, I was really impressed with Spaghettification, the

>Speaking of T-Power, I was really impressed with Spaghettification, the >Coldcut and Sakamoto remixes, and "Body Lockers" especially. I can just >imagine what this guy's jungle is like.

Hope you have a good imagination - Self-Evident Truth (SETOTIM), Police State, and Symbiosis/Complexification are pretty amazing.

quoted 2 lines Is any of T-Power's solo stuff

>Is any of T-Power's solo stuff >still available?

Just remixes. SOUR seems to be tits up, though Waveform came out US domestic and there are a lot of copies floating about.

quoted 2 lines Does he plan on recording as T-Power again or is he just

>Does he plan on recording as T-Power again or is he just >part of Chocolate Weasel now?

Since he's putting out TPower remixes, it seems that the nom-de-disc is still active. I'm _guessing_ that he no longer has a contract w/ SOUR, so he's shopping for another deal. What bugs me is that it's been a while since I've heard a track from him that is that synthy melodic brand of drum&bass that he perfected on Symbiosis. Since scaling that peak he's been turning in a lot of average tracks. Che "Every fart has some kind of smell, and we cannot say that all Soviet farts smell sweet." - Mao Tse-tung to the Supreme Soviet, 1956

1999-04-19 15:12Aaron S MichelsonExcerpts from mail: 19-Apr-99 TPower (Re: (idm) Voda) by Che@synthcom.com > What bugs me i

From:: Aaron S Michelson <asm2+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:: Intelligent Dumb Music <idm@hyperreal.org>, Che <zeus8@synthcom.com>
Date:: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:: Re: TPower (Re: (idm) Voda)
Reply to:: TPower (Re: (idm) Voda)

Excerpts from mail: 19-Apr-99 TPower (Re: (idm) Voda) by Che@synthcom.com

quoted 4 lines What bugs me is that it's been a while since I've heard a track from him

> What bugs me is that it's been a while since I've heard a track from him > that is that synthy melodic brand of drum&bass that he perfected on > Symbiosis. Since scaling that peak he's been turning in a lot of average > tracks.

This seems to be a common complaint of T-Power's material. You ought to check out his opinion.... http://come.to/bleepbloopweb... there's a full interview buried in there somewhere. The interview was conducted a few months after the Chocolate Weasel album came out. He has a few things to say about post-Self Evident Truths material. Later, Aaron