From Peter Hollo Sent Sun, May 10th 1998, 07:03
From Peter Hollo Sent Sun, May 10th 1998, 07:03
Here's the first of a number of reviews I'm hoping to send in in the
near future. The Third Eye Foundation - V/VM split 12" on Fat Cat.
Third Eye Foundation have the [1] side. One long very dark track, 12:04,
and apparently a remix of KS Kollective, which doesn't mean anything to
me. It starts off with fractured junglish breaks and dark ambience over
the top... The jungleish element continues for about half the track,
after which the beat drops out and the rest of the track is wafting dark
ambience. Rather weird all in all (but wait for side 2!) The beat gets a
little tedious after a little while, not enought variation for me, but
nice atmopshere all the same. The best bit is right at the end, where a
highly distorted and fucked up sample of what may be a symphonic version
(or may be the original) of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get
What You Want". Whether this is a knowing nudge at the Verve's
horrendously repetitive and irritating song "Bittersweet Symphony" with
its single loop taken from quite possibly the same Rolling Stones song
or not, it's very amusing.
The other side is something different again. If you know V/VM from the
0161 comp you'll know what to expect although the "rhythms" are less
off-the-wall than those on the comp. Total white-noise distortion at the
start of the first two tracks, and in general the sound is like the evil
twins of Autechre. The last track (number 4) is superb ("Will Travel,
North West" - don't ask me...) with its beautiful synth string lines and
abstract distorted crunchiness in the background like stormy electrical
disturbances. Great stuff!
Peter.
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