john wrote....
|Well, I just bought 'sheet one' over Xmas. IMHO it's a really good CD.
|New years day, there I was, hungover, and listening to sheet one on
|headphones just soothed away my aches and pains.
|
i've been watching the minimalism good / minimalism bad volley for the
last few days and have been wondering what the point is, but it's
something i feel strongly about, so i'll contribute to the
pointlessness. . .
as a rule, i gravitate towards pieces with lush production and complex
developent, but something about fuse / plastikman's minimalist groove
just sucks me in. listening to a song like "electrostatik" off sheet1
just freaks me into a tightly wound zone. "plasticity" is not much more
than a bongo line and a 5 note 303 riff, but it's sweet, nonetheless. the other
extreme is the sonic assault of a song like "f.u." off of dimension
intrusion thats speaker to speaker oscilations just make me swing my
head like a pH enhanced stevie wonder. luv it!! the development is
there and it's fascinating, it just not in evolving rhythms and themes.
it's in the flanging and sweeping of the delectablly simple 303 tones
that richie lays down. i still haven't found the "magic square" on the
sheet1 inset, but i'm only half done with it...
bottom line (IMHO), there IS a place for sparse funky minimalism, and
richie's at the top of the peak in that genre.
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