Gotta agree with Franz about Animals on Wheels. I really like a lot of
Andy's stuff. I think the first track on Spunk Jazz (Hate Me?) is
fantastic, really loud and nasty break and at the same time really
funky. A lot of the album on Ninja Tune is really great too, the mellow
"soluble ducks" in particular. I don't what anyone who is so much into
Mu-ziq can have against Andy Coleman's stuff frankly. He puts out a lot
of stuff that's a helluva lot better than Mealtime was too. His track on
that was great, as are a few others, but on the whole one couldn't have
a greater pack of generic "let's see how many offensive clicky sounding
beats we can fit into each bar" music. I *love* clever, crazy,
changeable drum'n'bass, I *love* Mu-ziq/Squarepusher etc and to be
honest I like Mealtime a lot more than I did on first listen too, but
still...
Andy has a great melodic ability, much like Mikey P, but with less
chessiness on the whole, which I consider a good thing. He has a great
sense of humour, like Mike P again, and comes up with some great rhythms
sometimes. Occasionally can do some quite offensive sounding stuff with
insistent ostinato patterns that drive me crazy which I skip every time,
but then so does Mike P/Mu-ziq and Aphex and Tom Jenkinson.
Anyone into the Mu-ziq/Squarepusher/Plug/Dot label/etc style of idm
ought to give his stuff a listen, honestly. No worse than much of the
other stuff, sometimes quite a bit better.
There, that's my rant. Stopping now, you can come out of hiding!
np: John Zorn - Circle Maker
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"Of course, dance music can be a music where you lie on your back and
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