From solenoid Sent Sun, Aug 1st 1999, 23:51
From solenoid Sent Sun, Aug 1st 1999, 23:51
For around the same price as the B2000 CD, you could get twice the music, get to play actual video games, and have a working 8-bit computer left over. I listenned to this record in a local shop and, yes, it is funny/goofy/etc music, but probably what is funny is that it has gone all the way to vinyl. The music is as up and down as a random assortment of Atari ST (85-89) video game music (not counting the spoken word stuff and ravey bits on the B2000). I have been in the Atari ST scene for 10-12 years (I think there is a 120XE on the cover) and spotted some of the Atari built-in synth generator sounds right away, whether it was an XE or not, who knows. My point is that a person could download bits of music and mods and use softare to make music like this themselves (though painstaking for most people) and have twice the fun for half the price ($24 for LP/CD). Most Atari ST's out there are in the $0-$75 range, and I've stumbled on several 1040's for a couple bucks a peice. I suggest anyone interested in this record go out and dig up an C64 or Atari (no harder than finding this record on vinyl I suspect) and make their own tunes or download some of the tons of games for these and record the soundtracks through a warm distortion pedal in mono. I still don't think it is RDJ, though. Anyone who bought this record might consider finding old Der PLan records (81-82 era) to mix with it between trax, and then Elektroids' 12" on Warp to mix in case someone actually starts dancing seriously. Solenoid On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dave Segal wrote: > This may resolve the mystery of who's behind Bodenstandig 2000. > Ripped from Other Music's weekly new-releases update. > > > Bodenstandig 2000 "Maxi German Rave Blast Hits 3" (Rephlex) CD/LP > $23.99/$23.99 > Richard James (aka Aphex Twin, AFX, Gak, Caustic Window, etc.) answers Frank > Zappa's rhetorical question "Does humor belong in music?" with a resounding > "Da!". Yet another anonymous side project, Bodenstandig 2000 unleashes 18 > tracks of cheesy Casio-pop and distorted rave anthems sprinkled with bizarre > German dialogue. In anyone else's hand, this joke wouldn't be very > entertaining. But James manages to pull it off with schlager-esque charm. > Even so, this one may be best left for hardcore Aphex/Rephlex fans only. > > Dave Segal > Managing Editor/Alternative Press > Reviews/BPM/Reissue Redux/Origins Of Cool > Secret Ions on WCSB Thursdays 9-11PM EST www.wcsb.org > > np: rashied ali/louie belogenis- rings of saturn [knitting factory] >