Re: (idm) Download "III" - mini review

From Andrij Kopytko
Sent Wed, Oct 22nd 1997, 20:20

At 11:02 AM 10/22/97, you wrote:
>It's out now, and I love it.  This one is a different direction
>from The Eyes of Stanley Pain, but a good one none the less.  The
>experimentalism is turned down a notch on most of the songs, but
>there's still a wealth of weirdness mixed in the layers and >textures.

I was really surprised when I heard this album.. "Furnace" and "The Eyes.."
were very well thought out and were full of fresh (at the time) ideas. This
new release just sounds like a painfully rushed rehash of platEAU's "Music
For Grassbars" to me, except putting a little more influence on textures
and ambience and less on the beat (or "less house-y, more trance-y"). Oddly
enough, I like house music a lot more than generic trance-ness, so I
imagine I won't be buying another Download release for a while. Perhaps
I'll buy whatever EP cEvin & the Subconscious Kru are doing to put the
Autechre remix on.