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From:
Nuutti-Iivari Meriläinen
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 06:55:37 +0200 (EET)
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Re: (idm) Gescom: Motor EP - any good?
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jeffrey Barszcz wrote:
quoted 3 lines While record shopping, i saw a copy of this. Is it any good? Can someone> While record shopping, i saw a copy of this. Is it any good? Can someone > provide a review or point me toward one? >
As an Autechre/Gescom fanatic I have to admit that this is most probably one of the weakest releases by them. Quite an obscure French label, too. Hard, minimal, metallic clonking and clanking, not your usual we're-going-to-mess-with-your-sense-of-rhythm or we'll-make-you-dream-of-fractals-and-mathematic-formulae-Autechre. Not a lot of variance in rhythm structure and hardly any melody (unless you count the whiny noises). If you like the Autechre remix of Mark Broom's Any Number Between 1-17, you should get Motor. Though the record has grown on me during the years, it's still one of my least favourite releases by Booth/Brown. I just noticed a week ago that I still haven't even opened my copy of the Gescom MD, let alone listened to it. I don't event have an MD player. I buy vinyl, damn it. I'm also trying not to explode while trying to get my hands on a few choice slabs of not-so-IDM wax. Why do online record shops have items in their catalogue that they don't have in stock and are totally unable to get? I've tried at least six. But I digress. A few rounds of http://www.kvetch.com/ and I'll feel a tad better. -- nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org