i've heard rumours that the French Paddleboat cd has been released as a ltd
Lathe Cut vinyl lp too... Edition somewhere between 50 and 200 I guess.
Great cd...
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Van: AeOtaku@aol.com <AeOtaku@aol.com>
Aan: idm@hyperreal.org <idm@hyperreal.org>
Datum: vrijdag 31 december 1999 6:22
Onderwerp: (idm) Re: Vote Robot
quoted 30 lines Have to add my recommendation:
>Have to add my recommendation:
>Yesterday, in a weird find that doesn't seem to happen
>often at Amherst's Newbury Comics (what the fuck factor
>set to 9000) I picked up the French Paddleboat CD on
>Canadian Scratch, and I have to say it was excellent.
>Marching band drums with soft, non-confrontational "poploops"
>(as they will certainly be referred to from now on) that
>puts you in that happy, nostalgic, optimistic mood.
>If the hallmarks of the Vote Robot sound (short bursts
>of sonic experimentation) are a bit much, take it slow with
>this record (which, IMHO sounds _nothing_ like the Vote Robot LP's).
>Definitely strong.
>
>At the opposite end of the spectrum was the other CD I got
>yesterday, Mika Vainio's "YDIN" on Wavetrap. I really liked this,
>and I think it's because all of the "songs" sound entirely different
>from the ones that proceed them. He's still operating in that
>"broken appliances" framework he built with the Sahko stuff, but
>you can actually hear this music (unlike, say, the "medical"
>Sahko releases) and some of the tracks are really new and different.
>Suitably weird packaging and Finnish song titles as well: home run.
>I'm just waiting for him to package a release in faux-black metal style.
>
>Matt
>
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