funny thing:
went out to dinner tonight and JH3 aka Slicker was in the restaurant with
six (count 'em six) women all a giggling at his funny funny stories
smooth bastid...
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Matthew Korfhage wrote:
quoted 59 lines Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org> wrote:
>
> Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org> wrote:
>
> >I think I finally encountered what sounds like The Album Of 2000 So
> > >Far...Land Of The Loops "Puttering About A Small Land". Those of you
> > >who picked up "Bundle Of Joy" within the past four years know Alan
> > >Sutherland's craft of throwing together dope beats, children's >melodies
> >incorporating guest female vocalists and dee-lish Peter Hook >style bass
> >lines, Severed Heads style looping/delaying, and humorous >found-sound
> >segues a la Coldcut. This new record should definitely >keep "Bundle Of
> >Joy" fans happy, but it is far more spacey and dreamy >-- which shouldn't
> >really come as a surprise if you also own and >enjoy the "Refried Treats"
> >EP.
>
> Can't agree on the album of 2000 bit-- I like what Sutherland does, but he's
> doing it on a treadmill. The new disc's aptly titled in that regard. I've
> gotta give him some credit for churning out some nice no-effort answering
> machine messages for those that don't like to hear their own voice on
> recordings (even if David Berman thinks that's something you're supposed to
> outgrow as you get older), but on a single listening I wasn't able to
> discern much difference between Suth's work now and what he was doing in
> '96. Although, BTW, anybody that's a fan of LoL should probably check out
> Buckminster Fuzeboard's hyperactive cheese machine as well (album name
> escapes me). Pleasant along the same vein, and features Alan on a few
> tracks.
>
> Oh, and I know this album's been mentioned a couple times already, but I was
> listening to Slicker's remix album today and was struck by something--
> Confidence in Duber sounds more like remixes than do the remixes. What I
> mean is, the orig. album ALREADY sounds deconstructed (my guess is that the
> original tape was an old alcoholic breathing moist static into a vocoder),
> and the remixers sort of picked up the pieces and made more traditional,
> cohering tracks, except that the resulting songs still couldn't avoid
> sounding like Slicker songs. Hence the funny reversal.
> Granted, it's not all that unusual that a remix might sound more traditional
> or coherent than the original, but it IS rare the way it plays out here.
> Hughes has this odd way of putting sounds together so that all the assorted
> edges and pieces hang and jut against each other like an aural version of
> cognitive dissonance, and it's as if the remixers brought the songs back to
> the primitive state where the contradictions were never apparent and the
> parts were allowed to juxtapose harmlessly. Hell, that even goes for Matmos'
> three-platter pile-up. I think part of the reason might be that Slicker's
> trademark stutter-step organic rhythms sound half the time like they're
> trying not to trip over anything, and half the time like they ARE tripping
> over something, and that's been ironed out a bit in the transition to the
> remixes.
>
> Apologies for drivel.
>
> Matthew
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