Re: (idm) jeswa/aemic

From mltsnt
Sent Fri, Jan 15th 1999, 13:10

peter cozijn <xx@xxx.xx> said::

>At 23:40 13-01-99 -0500, you wrote:
>>%(*^!%!%^ yah! basically. autechre anti-ep werked out really well. as did
>>incunabula. im not sure what it is about it.  but  jeswa - skone 12" is a
>>definate no-no.  do *not* put that 12" on to fuck. it just doesnt work it
>>all. i think its the melodies.  they make things too puzzling, they make you
>>question things.  pole - cd1 works really well for the most part as well now
>>that i think of it.  i havnt really put my finger on what makes things work
>>and what makes them not work but im working on it.  i think funkstorung -
>>post art and aemic - aleph can be good at times, most definately beforehand.
>
>that's kind of weird you know. i've had the aemic 12" since last summer and
>probably haven't played it more than 7 times (which is really special
>because i don't buy that much records). 

ditto, the electric sheep is so much nicer..
aemic goes for that hyper digital tension type sound that Ae are into now,
but i think Estermann and Fakesh are much better with their melodic sense
and i hope they don't fall into the same trap ae did

> got the jeswa ep last weekend,
>and i've been playing it all week. it's really 'nice' overall, tho' the
>aemic 12" is too hectic (i'm especially talking about the longer track
>now). i've even played the phoenecia release on warp from last year again!
>this makes me ask a fa-question: what was the lowdown about the members of
>metic/jeswa/phoenecia/soul oddity again?

Metic=Romulo Del Castillo & Paul Llyod
Soul Oddity, Phoenecia= Joshua Kay & Romulo Del Castillo
Jeswa= Joshua Kay

i think this is correct...
i'm gonna throw up a tiny fan page for the schematic crew this weekend,
cause a thread of this sort (discography, alias, etc.) seems to pop up
every few weeks the label..


btw, in regards to mr. hime, he seems to have conveniently forgot to
mention that i threw in a free CD to make up for his troubles..
 
later.mlt