On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Ashok Divakaran <adivakaran@worldbank.org> wrote:
quoted 3 lines While we're on the subject of France, could someone comment on> While we're on the subject of France, could someone comment on
> Scan X? I've been quite curious about his stuff for a while,
> but have been reluctant to take the (expensive) plunge.
_Chroma_ (F Communications) is excellent. intelligently crafted techno, full of
nuances and subtleties. always finds its way back onto the deck. the 4OTMFF is
kept to a minimum, though some tracks ("Dust," "Grey Lights") have a nice
Detroit/House new-complexity vibe to them. Stephane Dri mixes things up well,
most of the cuts are in the tolerable 3-5 minute range (a rarity indeed!) and
there's a little of everything; hyper-percussive workouts ("Voodoo"),
trance-expansive 808 waves ("Secrets"), Force, Inc-ish hard vibes
("Earthquake"), Gas-eous cyberplasmic ambience ("Turmoil") and back again -
several times! Dri stirs up some really gorgeous melodies; he easily ranks up
there with Stasis, Hannant, BDP, and Slater for pure listening pleasure.
file with Sun Electric and System7 (sans guitar), Ladomat2000 gear
maybe even with your Biochip-C, Unit Moebius, and Drexciya.
a lot of names, but there's a lot of stuff going on here. indulge me.
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