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From:
Ashok Divakaran
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Wed, 05 Feb 1997 16:35:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject:
RE: (idm) Carl Craig "More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art"
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quoted 7 lines _______________ from > > > _______________ from http://www.crammed.be/ssr/ssr188p_.htm > In the same year, Carl Craig's debut album Landcruising was described as > "completely ahead... futuristic, gorgeously new... a sonic travelogue built > like a drag racer fuelled on abstract visions and compelling > analogue/digital fusions - someday all albums will be made this way!"
Wow... purple prose taken to new heights. If anything, Landcruising was disappointingly retro and downright naive in many places. Lots of Carl's other stuff has been innovative but this really is pushing it. Ashok