Re: (idm) Pi Soundtrack

From Broken
Sent Wed, Jul 22nd 1998, 15:00

What label is this on and when's it due out?

Howie

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Aaron Michelson wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 98 09:42:27 -0500
> From: Aaron Michelson <xxxxx@xxxxxx-xxxxxxxx.xxx>
> To: "Agarwalla, Niraj" <xxxxx.xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
>     "'xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx'" <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Re: (idm) Pi Soundtrack
> 
> >Has anyone checked out the soundtrack for the movie _Pi_ yet?
> >Great IDM stuff in it like Orbital, Aphex Twin, Autechre, etc.  
> 
> Picked up an advance during David Holmes' gig at Smartbar in
> Chicago during Billboard.... about 70% of it is brilliant!
> 
> Here's the tracklisting:
> 
> Clint Mansell - [pi]r2
> Orbital - P.E.T.R.O.L.
> Autechre - Kalpol Intro
> Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
> Roni Size - Watching Windows (Ed Rush & Optical remix)
> Massive Attack - Angel
> Clint Mansell - We Got Da Gun
> David Holmes - No Man's Land
> Gus Gus - Anthem
> Banco de Gaia - Drippy
> Psilonaut - Slow Song
> Spacetime Continuum - A Low Frequency Inversion Field
> Clint Mansell - 2[pi]r
> 
> The Clint Mansell tracks plainly bite.... lack of imagination
> or technical creativity.... and the Banco De Gaia track, well,
> it sounds like typical Banco De Gaia material. As for the rest
> of the compilation? I like it. Nice to here some early Autechre
> getting soundtrack presence (Kalpol is a wise choice from their
> first album, Incunabula)... and the Spacetime Continuum track
> could possibly be exclusive. Which leads me to ask, is it?
> 
> It sounds like a remix from his collaboration with Tetsu Inoue,
> Electro Harmonix on Fax. That disc is one of my all-time favorite
> ambient records.... A Low Frequency Inversion Field track ever
> released?
> 
> Over all, recommended if you dig these kinds of bands and you're
> missing most of these tracks.
> 
> Bleep
>