(idm) The brilliance of Steven Stapleton

From Arthur B. Purvis
Sent Tue, Jan 27th 1998, 03:29

>        does anyone have any pictures or info about
>       the instrument stapleton used to create sililoquoy
>       for lilth (instanty one of my favorite albums)? was
>       it a wind/strings/blah blah.

I could be totally off the mark here, but isn't SFL the album he (in
theory, anyways) built instruments for and then immediately destroyed
them?  Or am I think of some kind of destruction of master tapes after
something was recorded?

>        np. luke vibert 'big soup' (wow. this record is gooood)

  Wells, while I usually agree with you, I feel the need to say that this
album bored me to tears.  I could literally not find a full two minutes of
remotely interesting/grooving music on the entire record, and I listened
to it 30-40 times (no recollection, however; I was so bored after the
first minute and a half I usually stopped paying attention by accident).

Something that is a bit like Big Soup but much better would be the Slotek
record on Wordsound.  Like Big Soup in that it's got some strange elements
and panning and whatnot, but it's a _lot_ stranger, the beats are better,
the bass rocks, and, in short, it's amazing (but what else could one
expect from an album not only on Wordsound but by an ex New Kingdomer?).

I was listening to NWW - Sylvie and Babs...  when I read this email, and I
really, really, really think you should run out and buy it.

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