On Sun, 3 Aug 1997 frankie@gargamel.com wrote:
quoted 10 lines Probably the greatest "techno" album ever released
> Probably the greatest "techno" album ever released
> (of course not counting Kraftwerk...:)
>
> ...but why do you want to know?
>
> Listen, it won't be hard finding out.
> It's brilliant. Try "Music For Adverts" if you like it,
> I don't think "Bytes" is really as brilliant as
> everybody claims it to be.
>
I picked up Bytes after (the admittedly brilliant) Spanners and was
initially disappointed as well. Bytes doesn't have nearly the rhythmic
complexity, timbral variety, or compositional develpoment of Spanners.
But, as a result of its relative simplicity, it has an emotional
directness and much more of a persistent groove than Spanners does. Temple
and Parallel are similiar.
Adverts, on the other hand, is a tough nut to crack....
-arjun
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~arjun