From flesh-coloured anti-aircraft alarm Sent Wed, Feb 24th 1999, 16:19
hi, ho. could someone render an opinion unto me regarding freeform's "pattern tub" disc? i have "free" (like it) and "elastic speakers" (think i liked it...never really listen to it) and i'm wondering if it's worth picking up. please explain your answers. gotta give big ups to all who recommended mannequin lung (and plug research in general). mannequin lung manages to scratch my ester-brinkmann-style itch and my funky itch at the same time. pretty good stuff, excepting "city lights." i am also amazed by low res "approximate love boat" - fuck wow cool. keen scuttling sound sculptures in fractally-folded tinfoil and overamplified tone-arms. has that chaotic phthalo thing, but is somehow better. which is saying quite a lot. also picked up the geroyche vs. wintermute 12" on kool pop. "letzte zuflucht". not _exactly_ the combination of autechre and christoph de babalon the hype sheet implied, but still pretty good stuff if you like simplistic, crunchy/distorted post-DHR noise with some sweet dark ambient bits that do remind me of christoph's most excellent _destroy berlin_ 12". a little too loopy at times, but there are moments of near genius and they don't just assail you constantly with too much distortion. if only i didn't have to work, i could write decent reviews once more. [gr] -- [http://listen.to/treblequake] [eleet fnema] 'i got 36 candles and a stereo.' 'i'm nocturnal - in a world of lunar oddity.' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com