From spacecake Sent Thu, Apr 2nd 1998, 06:23
From spacecake Sent Thu, Apr 2nd 1998, 06:23
At 02:56 PM 4/1/98 -0500, you wrote: >I was listening to the track just now (admittedly I >don't listen to 76:14 as much as I should) and tried >to force myself to not get thrown by the chords (I've >tried many times before but failed) and what did I >hear? a totally different sound! Funky I suppose? >Lots of the noises were 'off beat' but finally the >track gelled together and I can actually enjoy it :-). > <snip, 'hearing' difficult music for the first time> eh, this reminds me of how i felt towards orb's orbus terrarum when it first came out... i thought it was 'okay' but nothing great... (i was kind of hoping for UFOrb2 at that time) then three years later after forgetting about it, i listened to it again... and then it hit me: <ouch!> that album's absolutely fucking brilliant! the choatic beats the textures... everything... later, the beats and the whole thing kind of reminded me of organum's veil of tears and hmmm, what was that other one called? oh submission.... except here the sonic textures were animated... transformed into beats... while organum shaped the 'percussion' to be the drone... now that orb album is one of my favorites, and doesn't sound dated even today... (notice aphex twin's and autechre's recent attempts to 'shape sound' and incorporate shifting sound textures into beats... that's exactly what orbus terrurm did... the beats emerged from the swishing/clashing delayed/reverbed to the 9th degree sonic soup... i was too short sighted too see it at that time though...) other albums that i didn't fully appreciate when they came out were: autechre's 'amber' and aphex's 'i care because you do' (i remember ICBYD gave me a headache when listening over headphones... and amber seemed kind of bland... since then amber saved my life many times... heh, i remeber that 2 years ago when tri repeate came out there was considerable amount of bitching and moaning on this list (u know who u are!) about how autechre have 'lost it'... now tri is hailed (almost unanimously) as a 'masterpiece') hmmm, suprisingly when 0's metri (i vote twin bleeps to be the most brilliant minimal track *ever*) came out on sahko i really got into on the first listen...(it drove all my friends fucking crazy though!) but it took 2 listens with ollento. hmmm.) peace. :spacecake:OnNow:jeans,t-shirt,women's panties.