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quoted 5 lines I've recently bought Never Mind The Distortion 1 & 2, remix

>I've recently bought Never Mind The Distortion 1 & 2, remix >compilations of Nav Katze's : Gentle & Elegance (Victor >Entertainment, VICL-746) >Does anyone have G&C album, is it worth of buying ? >Any reviews ? Help really apprecieated...

I bought the G&E album a while back, after kinda liking the little audio clips that NK put up on their web site. G&E has a few tracks that are produced / remixed by Autechre and Disjecta and maybe Sun Electric as well. Fairly solid remixes if I remember, with the Autechre one being less crazy than the one on NMtD2 and more of a dirty, slow, downbeat type of thing. The non-remixed material is ok. Very pretty-sounding synthpop with high-pitched (if not unpleasant) vocal stylings by the two female members. If you like Japanese pop or new wave in general, it's a good buy. Needless to say, Autechre completists should probably get it. Speaking of which, I'm rediscovering a lot of old Autechre vinyl, which didn't grab me at first but which I'm ODing on lately: Keynell original on Skam, Keynell remix on Warp, the Warp special 12", Gescom 12" on Clear, remix of Lexis for Cert18, etc. etc. etc. Good stuff. James Jung-Hoon Seo // Oracle Tools Fundamental Technologies Group (650) 506-3829 // jseo@us.oracle.com The fundamental things apply / as time goes by

On 10-Feb-98, James Skilton wrote:

quoted 5 lines Incunabula, which within a week was my favourite album of '93.) But my good

>Incunabula, which within a week was my favourite album of '93.) But my good >friend Simon Walley (CiM, known to many of you) has recently had the same >experience as JAmes here - just finding that Autechre tunes keep finding >their way back to his turntable even though they didn't really grab him >first time round.

Amen. Garbage hardly leaves the decks these days, and Cichlisuite is glued to my CD player. I've never known any other electronic artists with such a talent for making involving tracks. The subtlety is mind-boggling. -- <---HEATsink---? np: tuesday - jowonio productions

quoted 1 line "HEATsink" == HEATsink <c3@heatsink.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>>>> "HEATsink" == HEATsink <c3@heatsink.demon.co.uk> writes:

HEATsink> Amen. Garbage hardly leaves the decks these days, and HEATsink> Cichlisuite is glued to my CD player. I've never known HEATsink> any other electronic artists with such a talent for HEATsink> making involving tracks. The subtlety is mind-boggling. I was trying to explain to a friend exactly why I so impassioned by Autechre. I was listening to the Gescom Keynell, I think the second track. I asked her to pick out all the different things going on in the tune. At each point she'd say maybe three or four, and I'd point out some extra stuff going on that is very subtle. This went on for a couple of tracks, both of us just listening, disecting what they put together so smoothly. Then she started to notice how different rythms slowly morph and melt their way around the track, how two totally disjoint sounds slowly start to clash and eventually combine to form even more beautiful sounds and rythms. After about 15 minutes I told her to stop analysing it, that Ae don't do all this neat stuff just because they can, that the whole piece is sculpted and shaped from start to finish in this way, with sounds blending and melding, and rythms overlapping and clashing. All six of the keynells were listended to. She's not a notal convert yet, but I think she understands my obsession a bit better, and recognises their genious more. I go to see Autechre this Friday in Dublin for the first time ever. I haven't been this excited since I stopped believeing in Santa Claus! -hjw