Anyone know anything about this band? I picked up a remix CDEP and it's
very good, but I imagine that all of the songs are so different from the
originals (as is the IDM way) that I have no basis for knowing whether I
would like the band or not.
Quickie review:
Shiny Gnomes - "She (Remixes of MC Creatrix)" CDEP
Rough Trade (Germany) RTD 195.1946.3
Distributed by Pinnacle in the UK
6 tracks, 49:43
1. Heart Moon (Astral Moon Mix by Astralasia) 8:46
2. Thinking At The Edge Of Unthinkable (Amoebas Mix by Locust) 7:03
3. In Nadreena's Garden (Mustang Dub Mix by Mouse On Mars) 7:14
4. Healing Sounds Asleep (Hounds Of Hash Mix by The High
Corporation feat. Keith Appleton) 4:48
5. Heart Moon (Ambient Heart Mix by Astralasia) 8:41
6. Healing Sounds Asleep (Go To Sleep Mix by The High
Corporation feat. Occo) 12:40
Yes, I picked this up because I like the remixers here, and I was not
disappointed. Track 1 starts and ends in a space-ambient fashion and has a
fairly pedestrian mid-tempo whooshy-type thing in the middle. Not bad.
Track 2 is absolutely mad, all kinds of wicked out-of-sync percussion that
eventually patterns itself out, and then there are the noises and echoes.
Whoa! Track 3 is the gem, a complex clinky (as opposed to clanky) rhythm
augmented by buzzes of bass and whoops of bleeps. Track 4 has a slow
hip-hop-style beat (without the urgency) and actually has some vocals.
It's pleasant enough, but doesn't really grab me by the neck and shake.
Track 5 is like track 1 but without the middle part, and it actually works
better this way. Track 6 is very nice, *very* quiet ambient (nature
sounds, church bells, analogue hums) for the first 7.5 minutes, then
overlays the beat from track 4 for the remainder of the song, and again,
it works better than the first attempt.
Not bad for $8. They had a zillion of these at the Tower in Boston, so you
shouldn't have too much trouble finding it.
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