(idm) re: TO THOSE.../Echo Park/re: songs to make you weep

From Brad Shelton
Sent Thu, Apr 23rd 1998, 15:22

re: TO THOSE THAT DON'T READ EMAILS THOROUGLY
xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx (Peter Becker) wrote:
>I know Wells is joking around.  I'd have to be a really uptight, 
>politically correct *loser* if his post *really* upset me.

"Well now, I wouldn't say that.." could be you're a really bright,
politically neutral *music-lover* that *really* doesn't enjoy receiving
e-mail full of profanity and highly inflammatory comments under any
circumstances.


Anyway, I got my copy of Echo Park's full-length yesterday. After only a
couple of listens I hear it as a combination of unvarying beats (hip-hop
breaks, but not gritty at all, and no drum-n-bass if memory serves me
right), interesting guitars, samples (speech), and bare electronic
signals (mildly Panasonic). The following are credited on track or two
each with guitar noises, treated guitar, etc.- Thurston Moore, Robert
Hampson(sp?), Sarah Peacock, and Darren Seymour. A couple of the tracks
remind me of On-U Sound, humorous and really noisy.. I'm happy with it,
but try before you buy.


re: songs to make you weep...
Massive Attack - lots, notably the track 'Protection'
Air - 'All I Need'
Dead Can Dance - most of their music, but 'Song of the Seraphim' and 'In
the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed are Kings' get me every time
another vote for BoC - 'Everything you do is a Balloon'
FSOL - Lifeforms CDS


Brad Shelton
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