From iso-8859-1 Sent Mon, Feb 23rd 1998, 16:57
From iso-8859-1 Sent Mon, Feb 23rd 1998, 16:57
At 13:58 20.02.98 EST, you wrote: >Hi - Not very IDM, I guess, but has anyone picked up the box set, "The >Geist of Alec Empire" yet? >Is it worth the (I'm sure) considerable investment? I got this CD last week, and while I haven't listened to it too much I can only give you an initial/first impression: * I had quite high expectations for this 3CD set, but feel it could probably have been cut down to a 1 1/2CD set (!) instead; some of the tracks are really mediocre and add nothing new to either Mr. Empire's output nor the music "scene" in general (he should probably spend some more time on his tracks rather than just release everything he does; but then again, I somehow expect he would sound a bit like Autechre + MOM if he did...;) HOWEVER, you should probably buy it anyways, because it's not that expensive. I paid something like =A317 for it, and that's not much considering you get A) 3 CDs, B) the "best of" collection of Alec Empire and C) some unreleased tracks that are probably the best tracks on the CD (in addition to the tracks from Hypermoden Jazz 2000.5. (speaking of cheap CDs: I recently bought RLW's remix project, "Tulpas" (on Selektion), which is a 5CD set consisting of remixes using the entire RLW discography. I paid about =A321 for it! But it's not exactly IDM.). >- Sw /Oeivind/ /Oeivind Idsoe/ xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx ICQ: 7901600