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1994-04-13 13:02L. PitHi all, I've heard that Reload is going to do a John Peel session this friday on BBC1 ! Ho

From:: L. Pit <pit@WI.leidenuniv.nl>
To:: <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 94 14:02:20 MET DST
Subject:: Reload & John Peel this friday!

Hi all, I've heard that Reload is going to do a John Peel session this friday on BBC1 ! However, I live in the Netherlands, and receive it damn poorly :-(( Anyone in the UK nice enough to record it, make a copy off it on tape, and send it to me?? (of course the costs will be paid for..) Greets, Lawrence ---

1994-04-13 13:07Randy Dudley> > I've heard that Reload is going to do a John Peel session > this friday on BBC1 ! > sp

From:: Randy Dudley <dudley@phoenix.cs.uga.edu>
To:: <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:07:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....
Reply to:: Reload & John Peel this friday!

quoted 4 lines I've heard that Reload is going to do a John Peel session

> > I've heard that Reload is going to do a John Peel session > this friday on BBC1 ! >

speaking of reload...i've been doing some serious listening to the stuff i've gotten lately and the reload mix of on keeps coming back as being very nice. i saw the following two cd's in the ear/rational catalog: Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024] Creation can anyone give an opinion on these? any comparisons? gripes? randy

1994-04-13 14:56L. PitHi randy, > Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import Imho, the best idm-thingy

From:: L. Pit <pit@WI.leidenuniv.nl>
To:: Randy Dudley <dudley@phoenix.cs.uga.edu>
Cc:: <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 94 15:56:01 MET DST
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....
Reply to:: Re: Reload and all that....

Hi randy,

quoted 1 line Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import

> Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import

Imho, the best idm-thingy last year. It's long, dark, sinister, scary ambient. This really grows on you. The first time I heard it in a recordstore, and judging a record then is difficult. I thought the beats where too loud for my liking, so I didn't buy it. Later I heard it again at a friend of mine, and the beats came on like a melody! It totally blew me away. It doesn't have /that/ much beat though, just that you don't get the wrong impression.

quoted 1 line Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024] Creation

> Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024] Creation

At first a bit disappointing. The first track is utter brilliance though. Btw, look out for Mystic Institute's "ob-selon mi-nos". That's also from Tom & Mark of Reload. Personally, I think that is the best thing they've made yet. It has so much feeling in it, I didn't know that it was possible for anyhting outside country-blues to give me such a feeling, it sounds truly sad.

quoted 1 line comparisons

> comparisons

none. :-) Greets, Lawrence --- We knew we were being changed... made part of their world. We didn't know for purpose... but we knew... we would be told.

1994-04-13 14:06flu'id (floo'-)Wow, it seems as if we all agree. I've had a collection of short stories for a while now,

From:: flu'id (floo'-) <brit@chopin.udel.edu>
To:: L. Pit <pit@wi.leidenuniv.nl>
Cc:: IDM <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 10:06:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....
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Wow, it seems as if we all agree. I've had a collection of short stories for a while now, and together with Mu-Ziqs tango 'n' vectif, goes down as one of my favourite of the past year. wicked. _______ (__,-, \ / /\ \ f l u i d <finger me for PGP key> /,_) \ \ (/ \\ brit@chopin.udel.edu :65 FD F9 9F F2 23 F8 CF: \) flu'id (floo'-) :80 9C 11 AA 9F 92 0D 27:

1994-04-13 13:17Pete Ashdown> Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import > Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024

From:: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
To:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 07:17:44 -0600 (MDT)
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....

quoted 4 lines Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import

> Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import > Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024] Creation > > can anyone give an opinion on these? any comparisons? gripes?

Hands down, the best things I've bought this year. I was listening to "Auto Reload" last night and I can't believe how incredibly cool it is. Buy both, buy often. Ben, could you get Tom to relate a discography to you?

1994-04-13 19:46rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>speaking of reload...i've been doing some serious listening to the stuff >i've gotten lat

From:: <rweisend@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>
To:: <dudley@phoenix.cs.uga.edu>, <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 12:46:43 -0700
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....

quoted 10 lines speaking of reload...i've been doing some serious listening to the stuff

>speaking of reload...i've been doing some serious listening to the stuff >i've gotten lately and the reload mix of on keeps coming back as being >very nice. i saw the following two cd's in the ear/rational catalog: > >Reload - A Collection of Short Stories [3866] import >Reload - Auto Reload Vol. 2 [6024] Creation > >can anyone give an opinion on these? any comparisons? gripes? > >randy

I have Short Stories, it is marvelous. There are songs that are really acidic and hard (mosh), some ambient (rota link, the enlightenment), some midway between (peschi, ehn), and some songs are a mixture of moods (event horizon, 1642 try 621). Steve Hebditch (sp?) at uk-dance gave this album 5 stars out of 5. Heres what Jon Drukman thinks: < begin review > Reload: A Collection Of Short Stories Infonet INF 4 CD 156 6:19 Teq 133 7:00 Peschi 132 6:19 Ahn 3:27 Rota Link 12:22 1642 Try 621 4:26 Ev-i-loy 0:58 Akzinor 151 5:41 Mosh 120 9:12 Ehn 0:30 Psychophylaxis 113 8:05 Le Soleil Et La Mer 5:22 The Enlightenment 157 5:58 Event Horizon When they say "a collection of short stories" they mean it *literally*. The CD booklet contains a bunch of stories that go with some of the tracks on the CD. Unfortunately, the short stories (and the introduction) remind me of the pretentious "Creative Writing" magazines I saw far too many of when I was in college. I majored in English and the English Department building was always littered with these rags. Invariably more for the enjoyment of the author than the reader, I see the same annoying aesthetic at work here. And the most damning part, for me, is that the stories don't go with the music *at all*. So let's forget about them and just talk about the music. It's, um, interesting. Hard to pigeonhole, which is always a good thing. You've got your loud banging AFX-esque tracks like "Teq" and "Mosh". You've got some very pretty melodic tracks with excellent rhythm programming in "Ahn" and "Ehn". Then there's a suite of 4 tracks ("Rotalink" thru "Akzinor") which reminds me a lot of the ambient pieces that Skinny Puppy used to do in the late 80's: dark textures with rough edges and menacing industrial rhythms. I don't really know what to make of this disc. There's a wide range of textures and styles which shows that they definitely have their shit together, but it doesn't really connect for me. Nothing jumped out and made me want to hear it again. But it's good to see that there are still people out there trying different things! < end review > Sorry if this is redundant, I still have about 20 messages left to read in my mailbox. Can anyone comment on Auto Reload Vol. 2? -boB

1994-04-13 21:55JMRTNKO DSGN ETC SFCA> > Can anyone comment on Auto Reload Vol. 2? > Well after hearing Collection the first ti

From:: JMRTNKO DSGN ETC SFCA <martinko@netcom.com>
To:: i d i o m <idm@techno.Stanford.EDU>
Date:: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: Reload and all that....
Reply to:: Re: Reload and all that....

quoted 3 lines Can anyone comment on Auto Reload Vol. 2?

> > Can anyone comment on Auto Reload Vol. 2? >

Well after hearing Collection the first time through, I went right back out the door to get Auto Reload 2. It's five songs, but if you have Collection... you already have Le Soleil Et La Mer, so it's really only four. Auto Reload EP volume 2 : INFSCD 13 1: Phase 4 2: Le Soleil Et La Mer (Black Dog Productions Remix) 3: The BIosphere (Global Communication Remix) 4: Le Soleil Et La Mer (Original Mix) 5: The Biosphere (Original Mix) Well, the wide spectrum of music found on Collection is evident on Auto Reload as well. From warm Sunday morning bed-lolling music (Biosphere and Le Soleil) to rough brain thumper Phase 4 (which I can only describe as damn creepy!). My favorite tracks turned out to be Phase 4 (the movie scared me to death when I was a kid) and the remix of Biosphere. I was looking forward to Black Dog's remix of Soleil, but it really didn't impress me all that much. A little too plasticy when compared to the depth of the original version. I guess one thing I have to credit Reload for is that some their work is very *musical* (e.g. Biosphere remix) and feels composed rather than just an endless loop of a neat sample or tone cycle with a beat. Much of the stuff is pretty dense with levels of sound, but all of it seems to 'fit' and I find few instances of my brain trying to add notes or something else to the song. Ever happen to you? You're listening to this great track but it seems like one note is awkward or missing or something. I dunno. Maybe brain damage on my part anyway, definitely get it, if you can find it. I haven't seen it on cd in SanFran since I bought it a few months ago, but I've seen the vinyl around. the Biosphere remix and Phase 4 are some of their best work. Now, the question...what happened to volume 1? gimmmegimmmegimmme JMAR. slap! I needed that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bandwidth Hogging via the kind courtesy of DesignLink FCBBS (1) 510 933 96 76 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ J M R T N K O D S G N E T C S F C A | t h e t h i r s t y f i s h . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John A. Martinko, west desk chief, Illegibility Engineering Division <martinko@netcom.com> mmoooon...yipyipyipyipyip...uhhuh...uhhuh... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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