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how is Laika classified? ... as a "dog" the band? i would say they were sort of birthed around the original trip-hop vibe of bringing dance music textures and tones and energy to more traditional song crafting. there's singing and stuff, and the mood is pretty heavy, but still warm. the musicianship is pretty top notch and they combine a lot of different elements (both style and instruments) very well. the only album i ever bought was SoundsOfSatellites, which is very good. and i wanted to get GoodLookingBlues (?), but i don't think it ever got domestic release in the states. i saw them on the second at Lollapalooza back in the day. they seemed to kick some ass live. a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"...

quoted 17 lines From: "lysaabi " <lysaabi@earthlink.net>

>From: "lysaabi " <lysaabi@earthlink.net> >To: idm@hyperreal.org >Subject: [idm] OT - what is Laika? >Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 05:37:10 +0800 > >how would Laika be "classified"? > >thx, >L >-- > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org >

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I have Good Looking Blues. I picked it up Stateside and I otherwise concur with Nat's assessment. Some great quality stuff, IMHO. -matT nashville.tn

quoted 6 lines the only album i ever bought was SoundsOfSatellites, which is very good.

> the only album i ever bought was SoundsOfSatellites, which is very good. > and i wanted to get GoodLookingBlues (?), but i don't think it ever got > domestic release in the states. > > i saw them on the second at Lollapalooza back in the day. they seemed to > kick some ass live.

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, nat hawks wrote:

quoted 5 lines how is Laika classified? ... as a "dog"

> how is Laika classified? ... as a "dog" > > > a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"... >

wasn't laika a dog the russians sent into space? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org

I watched an episonde of The EGG on Public Television last night that was all about the sound archives in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. There they have thousands of records available for anyone to listen to with samples of everything from locomotives to people talking about their cats. (I mean literally EVERY sound imaginable documented and archived...) And they were interviewing DJs who explored sound creation with vinyl. One DJ showed how he would take two or more records and slice them up like pies... only to reassemble the two record pieces into a single record to create a rhythmic sampling of sound; the rhythm forming as the needle passed from one piece of one record to another... Very cool.

quoted 3 lines a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"...

>> a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"... >> > wasn't laika a dog the russians sent into space?

Oh yeah... and one of the archived sounds that were played was Laika's heartbeak as heard from the ground as Laika orbited the Earth. -matT nashville.tn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org