nah, i don't really like it...it's too much like hard
work to listen to...and i'm basically a lazy git! ;)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David O'Toole <dto@qwsi.net>
> To: <boston-idm@yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:36 AM
> Subject: [idm] [rant] sorry, new aphex record blows
>
>
> >
> > Last week I picked up the latest full-length from
> Aphex Twin.
> > Unfortunately, post-millennium, he has done
> exactly what Autechre did:
> > gone from being one of the major innovating
> electronic artists of the
> > 1990's to being a complete joke. There are
> precious few tracks worth
> > listening to on this record, and none of them
> equal the melodic skill
> > or production quality of his "middle period".
> Aphex's little sample-reuse
> > problem gives the "ambient" tracks a very samey
> feel (vaguely oriental
> > chimes in the vein of "Nannou") and the orchestral
> piano pieces just fall
> > flat.
> >
> > The rest of the album is tired, mediocre
> drum-and-bass. The originality in
> > drum arrangement, rhythmic composition, and sample
> creation that graced
> > most previous efforts is gone here---the drum
> sounds are ripped from some
> > old tracker's sample pack you might find on an
> obscure Scandinavian FTP
> > site. And that shrill, dissonant "sample-rate
> conversion" effect is
> > everywhere, hanging like a pall of smoke over the
> melodies---the obsession
> > with certain facile, sonically homogenizing DSP
> effects that killed
> > Autechre circa LP5 has finally snuffed out the
> last of 90's IDM's original
> > megastars.
> >
> > The awful truth for the elites who shunned
> melodists in favor of more
> > "difficult" music: the glitch disease was
> terminal, the patient has died
> > with the release of this album. Glitch-fetish and
> DSP-fuckery sapped
> > attention from the first commandment of what we
> do---the idea that melody
> > *is* music---and led the greatest electronic
> artists of a generation into
> > the sorriest work of their careers. Bouncing-ball
> percussion and granular
> > wank are as worn-out as The Cher Vocal Effect.
> >
> > Sitting in a dark, hollowed-out building somewhere
> under the Manhattan
> > Bridge last year, at a show where a friend and I
> had played a set
> > earlier in the evening, watching kids actually try
> to dance along to
> > the-latest-hot-shit-from-warp, realizing that he'd
> been hovering over
> > that PowerBook for more than an hour without
> producing anything resembling
> > melody, chords, or steady rhythm----I knew, this
> can't seriously last.
> > Well the iMac has crashed and all our Max patches
> are lost. Our Metasynth
> > license expired, the Kyma's power supply burnt
> out, and glitch has
> > imploded----in Helvetica Bold, leaving nothing but
> the smell of burnt
> > Atari logo t-shirts and an angular plume of smoke
> rendered in cubist
> > fracture courtesy of The Designer's Republic (with
> a few symbols
> > of Katakana thrown in for luck).
> >
> > "Drukqs", like Autechre's awful "Confield", will
> probably have its staunch
> > defenders among the elites. But don't be fooled---
> don't waste your time
> > with this flaccid and uninventive record.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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