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> the backseat of a car cruising randomly around San Francisco, while flaming
> on good E under a beautiful clear night sky and with "Lifeforms" on the deck.
Gee. And I thought I was the only one....
Lifeforms may not have been the neatest melodic or timbral experience, but
its disparate pallette of sounds call up an extremely complex and highly
detailed set of mental images when it is listened to intently, with or
without chemical mind enhancement. I could personally direct quite an
interesting movie set to Lifeforms, in fact, I think I could come up with
several. Therein lies Lifeforms' intrinsic value. Go listen to Mu-ziq if
you want cool melodies or Aphex if you want strange timbres. Lifeforms is
more of a painting than a work of music.