From brian j tang Sent Fri, Apr 24th 1998, 21:55
From brian j tang Sent Fri, Apr 24th 1998, 21:55
> > > I enjoy hearing their ethereal melodies backed by incongruous hip hop > beats. I haven't heard such lovely and listenable sounds from the idm > stable in a long time. Their work has a lovely, warm, lo-fi analogue feel. > I love to hear elements of hip hop and funk minus the samples that plague > the 'trip' hop genre. > > I couldn't explain in academic terms what their appeal is, and I agree with > you that they're certainly overhyped. > > However, I know two things: > > I really like the way their songs sound, and I haven't heard anything else > that sounds like them. I dunno yo. I'm not like a total Skamophile, and the stuff I've heard is the stuff on CD, i.e. Skampler, 0161, and Music has the right the children. I don't find their stuff that unique. Other stuff on those compilations get's me much more excited, like Jega, Bola, Lego Feet and the oh so Mild Man Jan. Oh include Bola's Forcasa 3 off the Skampler as one of those tunes to bawl my blood-shot eyes too. But anyway, I picked the Music Has the Right to Children disc, on sheer hype alone without listening to it. I mean it's far from the greatest thing I've ever heard. It's above average, however so is most of the stuff I buy. I dunno I guess it in no way sounds that unique to me. Maybe it's a bit more ambient then i like these days. I just think it's ground covered before by Spacetime Continuum, Autechre(of whom i not a big fan of). And meanders aimlessly a bit much for my taste. it's a good albumn, not great. Other more recent purchases have been getting much more play-time like Morgan Geist, RAC, and Eddie Flashin Fowlkes' Black Technosoul (thanks Raul, I love it). freshie <-- loves the aquarius tune however freshie Paranoia: The choice of a Tech Generation http://silly.com/~tang