From James Sent Fri, May 1st 1998, 21:14
From James Sent Fri, May 1st 1998, 21:14
B12 trivia: when Electro-Soma first came out, either a music mag article or
a
Warp print ad said B12 made Aphex Twin sound like Kylie Minogue. Err...
yeah.
I won't write a lengthy me-too, but Electro-Soma is definitely one of my
all-time faves.
Whether you find the album "boring" might depend on when you first heard it.
It was my fourth IDM album back in '91 or '92, after (ahem) Moby, Aphex
Twin,
and Polygon Window, and I still remember being struck by the simple melodies
and the sheer glossy shiny sheen of the album. But if I first picked it up
for
the first time in 1998 after listening to crazy d'n'b mutations for a year
or
two, maybe I'd find the drum programming a bit simplistic.
It's like listening to 808 State's ex:el again - don't get me wrong, it's a
great album, but whereas I thought San Francisco was a very complex track
back
when the album came out, nowadays it sounds relatively simple in melody and
structure.
Cheers,
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