From david turgeon Sent Tue, Jul 6th 1999, 16:38
From david turgeon Sent Tue, Jul 6th 1999, 16:38
> & Gilberto at least has some of the loungey Esquivel vibe that makes his > record amusing to listen to while drinking heavily and thrusting your > pelvis around like an idiot. > I'll agree it has nothing to do with Big Loada, but by no means does > that mean it's not a fun record. my story with gilberto: a few months ago (perhaps a year even, can't remember), i enter the record store & doing so discover two brand new ninja tune full-length albums by gilberto & the irresistible force with accompanying singles. i'm broke, so i decide on checking out the singles as they are much cheaper. i put 'nepalese bliss' in the listening station. listen. wonder 'what the FUCK?' & put it back where it was. then i figure that at least the gilberto single 'deliver the weird' must at least be good (plus it has a nicer sleeve) so i pick it up instead, without even listening to it. what a mistake. upon arriving home i realize that the record is, well, what it is. sell the record back. buy something else. god knows what. incidentally, the only ninja tune related record i bought since then is neotropic's '15 levels of magnification' which i thought was quite boring. that's all a shame since i really liked some of ninja's output (amon tobin, funki porcini, animals on wheels) but everything else i've checked out was simply not my taste -- too simple, too tame -- so i was expecting ntone, which is lauded as the 'experimental' side of ninja tune (no offence ninjeff & other ninja execs, but please allow me to cough some on that one) to make up for the lack of chin-scratching. i'm considering giving flanger a try, though, but that's because i have a huge fondness for atom heart's (or more precisely lisa carbon's) take on jazz. i'm going to recommend 'experimental post-techno swing' for the rest of my life i'm sure, even though i'm positive most of you would hate it. :) it should also be said that my record buyings were quite unfortunate around that time, & that on the same day i also bought such tired & tame records as jessamine's 'the long arm of coincidence' & rachel's' 'handwriting', both of which i sold back & for that am quite a better man i'm sure. god knows WHY anybody would care about this last rant, but it felt good to spew. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com