From Danjel Van Tijn Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 11:36
From Danjel Van Tijn Sent Tue, Mar 16th 1999, 11:36
Ok I have been listening to IDM type music for about 8 years now,and
especially lately there has been a lot of beautiful and intelligent music
neing released. I am especially fond of pretty much all Warp material and
I really loved the BoC album which I bought soon after it was released
last year.
Then there comes Bola-Soup:
Afters so many recomendations from magazine reviews, lists and friends I
bought the album at Christmas time. Since then I have given it several
listens but I am still completely mystified as to why it has been hyped up
so much!! The entire album to me is so incredibly basic. It sounds like a
guy with a decent MIDI module who wants to use as many tracks of the
preset sounds as possible and then put a little reverb and delay in parts.
There are a few interesting sounds at times but in general I can't get
over how simple the song structures, melodies and sounds are. Based on
everyone else opinions I was really sure that I was missing something but
after many listens I stick to my original opinion.
HYis tracks sounbd exactly the way mine did when I first started fooling
arround with MIDI composition. Maybe I should send an old demo tape to
Skam.
-intellijel