From david turgeon Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 15:37
From david turgeon Sent Fri, Jun 4th 1999, 15:37
after claiming that most minimal techno was of little interest to me, i set out to discover what was wrong with me. unfortunately i couldn't find the various artists '8'/'8.5'/'9' on fat cat as one kind soul recommended (as well as other things which i can't remember), so yesterday i bought the monolake/ml002 12" which i believe has tracks from their "interstate" cd. it played all night, thanks to the quite uncanny "repeat" button on my vinyl player, & i must say it's quite a treat. much, much more complex than any chain reaction-oriented material i've heard. very pleasing sounds throughout. their more ambient-noise track on "...compiled" didn't do much for me, which i guess is why i didn't buy any monolake before yesterday. but then again i didn't buy any chain reaction stuff after "...compiled". what's funny is that in the same record store, i got to hear some of the "37845 lookalike releases a second" kind of series by mike ink & that was quite the kind of thing that would have driven me away from minimal techno forever had i heard that first. okay, it wasn't that bad, but there was so little variation throughout & between the songs that it was almost laughable. i suppose his earlier records were better. at the same store i also had the chance to hear a used copy of rac's "structures" 2x12" on warp. hmmm... minimal but more club-oriented. quite average. then again it's like 2 years old. oh well. one record i just bought that i'm really looking forward to hear start to finish: the radar threat cd on history of the future. semi-harsh digital noise & mad beats. can't get any better. give it a try if you see it in your favorite store/mailorder. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com