From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Tue, Mar 2nd 1999, 13:14
From Arthur B. Purvis Sent Tue, Mar 2nd 1999, 13:14
got squarepusher - budakhan mindphone, jega - spectrum, and sonar - overdose simulation records in the mail today... hate to be constantly negative but neither of the first two was very special - squarepusher is just pretty dull (with one or two nice tracks) - never heard the last record, but this has a lot of wankified bass grooves, very little spastic percussion, and more odd noises than what I've heard - and jega was fun but there wasn't a single new idea (and way too many cliches) on the entire record. I'll keep my promo but I wouldn't pay for it. On a more positive note, the sonar record is great if you like it very very noisy and very very minimal. ant-zen power noise etc. also of note, the Klangstabil 12" released on Hymen/ant-zen recently is pretty nice; rough and crunchy drum and bass, sorta. not half so noisy as Sonar. other things I heard recently that were nice - burger/ink (I know I trashed it earlier but I've grown to like it a bit), an old novamute comp (1.1) with things like a mauritzio mix of vainqueur and plastikman etc.. oh yeah and the autechre peel sessions and pole cd1 and cd2 are fantabulous. but you probably already knew that. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto