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1998-04-29 19:28matt (idm) adm
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1998-04-30 02:00mult santa (idm) ambioke lithphth
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1998-04-30 09:17Richard Barnett Re: (idm) ambioke lithphth
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1998-04-29 19:28mattarmchair dance music. i kind of like that. it has a nice ring to it, and it would allow us
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armchair dance music. i kind of like that. it has a nice ring to it, and it would allow us to avoid the endless debate over the "i" word. what are the chances of changing the list name? speaking of music, i recently obtained the following titles. thanks go out to the urbansounds crew for enabling me to hear a couple of these before committing my hard-earned dollars. lithops - uni umit (sonig): a delightful 12" from a couple of months back, this release offers a half dozen harmonically- rich sound sculptures with varying amounts of rhythm. it's a well-balanced ep for those of us who enjoy textures, as well as rhythms that would empty a dance floor in about 3 seconds. two thumbs up. roupe - transport solutions (dot): this one would go off on some dance floors, but i mean that in a good way. the slow beats hit hard on track 1, just before an innocent synth cord turns into a wall of drone and then into a deep, wavy bass line. the friend remix retains the bass line, but ups the tempo to create a lounge track with attitude. the closer, a metamatics remix of the second roupe track, tops off the ep with some tight mid-tempo breaks and swirling synths. boards of canada - music has the right to children (warp) i don't own this yet, but i did hear it. it's what i hoped it would be - sort of lo-fi in that boards way, without any annoying interuptions like "nlogax" from the skam 12". my vocabulary can't do this thing justice so just buy it. kandis (karaoke kalk 1) i got kk2 before kk1, and i must say i was was expecting something diffent from kk1. now i guess i'll have to buy everthing this guy puts out, because this is ace! "senking" drifts along in a zone that is, to my knowledge, previously unexplored. my only complaint is that 14 minutes of relentless, steady, deep, entrancing beats is not enough. so i slow the record to -8 for this track. "luna corona," a little ambient- electro number, is the best track in this entire post. and "treasure island" closes the ep with another chilled sub-bass line reminiscient of some andrea parker material. angular art - andrea parker and david morley (infonet) found this 1995 gem for $5.99. only the deepest of basslines are on this record; thanks andrea. half of this thing sounds dated but the title track balances some sweet armchair breaks with a heavy bassline, piano strokes, and timely breakdowns. "after dark," as the name suggests, is a late-night flip flopper for the ambient headz. freeform - heterarchy (worm interface) i disliked "prowl" so much that i almost lost faith in freeform, but i finally picked this up anyway, thank god. it differs much from both prowl and the skam 12". when rhythms appear, they have to force themselves above a dense layer of harmonic anarchy. at times this thing sounds like tod dockstader for christ's sake. is anything else by freeform this good? i mean, i love the skam release but this thing is so much more dynamic. mouse on mars - vulvaland (too pure) found this on vinyl and couldn't resist even though it was $16. the pressing quality is kind of low but i like the way this record plods along, especially side one. if i had heard this record in 1994 i would have hated it. it's that good. after an initial listen, it sounded kind of dated but it reveals more each time i drop it (especially side one). youngman - electrostep II (serotonin) more dancefloor oriented than the other stuff on this list, but still functional armchair music. i think youngman took a minor step backward from the first electrostep ep. this one probably sold better, but it lacks the hangable auto bulb-ish intricate drum programming and the heavily filtered sweeps that made the first one fun. that's all for now. hope you don't mind the age of some of these releases. matt
1998-04-30 00:44the milkman's wife>boards of canada - music has the right to children (warp) >i don't own this yet, but i di
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quoted 4 lines boards of canada - music has the right to children (warp)>boards of canada - music has the right to children (warp) >i don't own this yet, but i did hear it. it's what i hoped >it would be - sort of lo-fi in that boards way, without any >annoying interuptions like "nlogax" from the skam 12".
quoted 1 line my vocabulary can't do this thing justice so just buy it.>my vocabulary can't do this thing justice so just buy it.
yes! i've been thinking of what to write of it in my review, but i can only come up with one thing: just get it! it is NOT brilliant or revolutionary, just hip-hop beats and short nice melodies.... but there's just something about it... warm and fuzzy and funny.... mmmmmmmmm. smells like an orange. so there's my review. later... :spacecake: np: just finished listening to BoC for the upteenth time...
1998-04-30 02:00mult santaa bunch of responses at the moment:: matt writes: >lithops - uni umit (sonig): not only is
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a bunch of responses at the moment:: matt writes:
quoted 1 line lithops - uni umit (sonig):>lithops - uni umit (sonig):
not only is this amazing, but, according to MDOS, Jan has another LP out (on the eat raw label), titled 'Didot' btw, anyone got a tracklisting for the slow cd (werner/fx. randomiz)
quoted 3 lines kandis (karaoke kalk 1)>kandis (karaoke kalk 1) >i got kk2 before kk1, and i must say i was was expecting >something diffent from kk1.
yay! new 12" by 'senking' (kandis) out this week. i'm working on getting audio of all the karaoke kalk releases up at: http://members.xoom.com/multsanta/kk/ look for them this weekend. (right now i've just got karaoke1/2/4 up) - sir lance said:
quoted 3 lines Phthalocynine has more stuff coming out soon of>Phthalocynine has more stuff coming out soon of >some highly respected labels but that's all i can >say now.
as highly respected as a-musik?? ...whoops let it slip.. (plus there's a HOLOSUD album... that 12" was a killer! IMHO, the best a-musik disc to date!) - and at 4am, while eating a delicous breakfast at a knutsford service station former president 'butcher' bush ran the charts [hee]:
quoted 7 lines just to let those interested enough know that the ambient series>just to let those interested enough know that the ambient series >which was marshalled by Simon Hopkins actually reached 24 volumes. >the latter ones from 5-24 included the wonderful david toop 'ocean of >sound compilations', japanese noise, and various artists including >Techno Animal, Paul Schutze, Toop himself and Edgar Froese. >if you can, track them down. i can't praise this series of releases >highly enough.
here's the complete list of releases posted to ambient list back when i was still lurking over there: ____ From: j.keens@rmit.EDU.AU (Jeremy Keens) Subject: (amb) virgin ambient Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:20:46 +1100 (EST) here, for your delection, is the full virgin ambient release list to date, as best as i can tell (not 100% sure of the last three numbers - but pretty sure) compilations have compiler after them single albums indicated by an * 1; A brief history (S. Hopkins) 2: imaginary landscapes (S. Hopkins) 3: music Of changes (S. Hopkins) 4: isolationism (Martin) 5: Edgar froese: Beyond the storm 6: schutze: apart 7: macro dub vol 1 (Martin) 8:techno animal: re entry 9: sufi: life's rising* 10: ocean of sound (Toop) 11: monsters, robots and bug men (S. Hopkins) 12: jazz satellites (Martin) 13: crooning on venus (Toop) 14: macro dub vol 2 (Martin) 15: penguin cafe* 16: sugar and poison (soul ballads) (Toop) 17: Sidewinder: colonised* 18: Toop: pink noir* 19: Schutze: abysmal evenings* 20: booming on pluto (oceans 3) 21:phantom City: shiva recoil* 22: toop: Spirit world 23: schutze :second Site 24: guitars on mars (oceans 4) jeremy ____ they often turn up in the used bins around here... saw vol. 3 just yesterday, but i passed it up so i could get the new matmos/157[lesser]/tigerboy[spacewurm]/3beam[who?] "disc" project 2xCD thinggy [on vinyl comm.] (which is VERY interesting to say the least...for those who don't know the concept. it's basically the whole thing was done by scratching/ skipping/ffwding/etc. exisiting cds. like oval only more popps [sic ;-)] and noise and static and less of all that .other so-called-musical crap.. ) +veer.nales _ _ _ _ http://members.xoom.com/multsanta/ _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
1998-04-30 02:24the milkman's wife>a bunch of responses at the moment:: > >matt writes: > >>lithops - uni umit (sonig): > >n
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quoted 10 lines a bunch of responses at the moment::>a bunch of responses at the moment:: > >matt writes: > >>lithops - uni umit (sonig): > >not only is this amazing, but, according to MDOS, Jan has another LP out >(on the eat raw label), titled 'Didot' > >btw, anyone got a tracklisting for the slow cd (werner/fx. randomiz)
jan werner/fx randomiz - slow. 1. fucker 2. build 3. fast forward 4. soft talking 5. psychosomatic loop 6. experts its a great CD. beautiful idm, very ahead of its time. which reminds me, how's that new fx randomiz on @music...? does it come close to 'slow'...? anyone? anyone...? peace. :spacecake:
1998-04-30 09:17Richard Barnett"the milkman's wife" <spacecake@earthling.net> writes: > >matt writes: > > > >btw, anyone
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"the milkman's wife" <spacecake@earthling.net> writes: > >matt writes: > > > >btw, anyone got a tracklisting for the slow cd (werner/fx. randomiz) > > jan werner/fx randomiz - slow. > > 1. fucker > 2. build > 3. fast forward > 4. soft talking > 5. psychosomatic loop > 6. experts > > its a great CD. beautiful idm, very ahead of its time. Where can I find this CD? > which reminds me, how's that new fx randomiz on @music...? does it > come close to 'slow'...? anyone? anyone...? "Goflex" is an excellent, tuneful release of squelchy, crunchy electronica, and no more challenging than Mouse on Mars. I can't compare it with "Slow", but I recommend it to those who like the other a-Musik stuff. (The track which appears on "Deutsche Funk" is a stand-out on that compilation, although the Mao II track was also excellent [I thought it was MoM] -- does anyone know anything more about Mao II?) -- Richard