From Che Sent Fri, Apr 23rd 1999, 01:56
From Che Sent Fri, Apr 23rd 1999, 01:56
At 12:54 PM 4/20/99 -0700, boomboomkid wrote: >I just read 808state have an LP on Rephlex, >anyone heard this? Why Rephlex, sounds i dunno >wierd to me... >if you have heard it what's it like? >I think it's called No Buildings or something Kids today...no sense of history. Oh well, I suppose you were in diapers when it came out. At 05:01 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Greg Clow wrote: >Newbuild...it's pretty good stuff if you like 808's early work. "Pretty good"????? PRETTY GOOD????? Bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaahhh!!!! Here's what Autechre said about it: >(10) 808 state: flow coma >"probably the best track in this [top 10] list. shits on everything else, >from a great height." Che >From the archives, children - this list could use some content, even if recycled: From: xxxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxx-xxxxxxxx.xx (really?) Subject: (idm) autechres top 10 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:18:50 +0000 >>obligatory idm content: autechre revealed their 10 favourite records in spex >>this month... i'll put it up on the list if anyone's interested >> >Please post it. Thanks! here goes... a rough translation... (1) mantronix: listen to the bass of get stupid fresh pt 2 this is the direction in which hiphop should have gone. the most contradictory elements are brought together in a way which creates a new organic whole. only rza is still doing comparable stuff, maybe dr. octagon. (2) kraftwerk: it's more fun to compute there's nothing to be said about kraftwerk which hasn't already been said before. but even if we had to do a top ten every month, this track would always be in it. (3) glen velez: bodhran velez only plays percussion on this track. one would probably have to call it jazz, but actually its also a perfect bit of acid. incredible sounds. when we first heard this, we were in despair. we couldn't quite do this with all our instruments, and this guy here only needs a drum. velez plays with rabih abou-khalil and currently teaches in miami. friends of ours live there and want to find out whether we can record anything together. (4) george clinton: atomic dog more sounds which make machines seem organic. the father of everything. (5) aphex twin: digeridoo there was a time when there was only richard. maybe it sounds a little farfetched, but we are listening to quite a bit of stockhausen at the moment and there is a link to richards stuff. both have put together this huge array of machines for their music, have collected incredible resources.even if stockhausen has probably gone mad, things like 'kontakte' point in the direction in which electronic music is developing. today one is interested in the possibilities of the use of composition in electronic music, and one has to realize that stockhausen has already done it all in a perfect way. but then he did have incredibly good conditions to work in. (6) zoviet-france: something this beautiful it could also have been 'white dusk'. - this is music which achieves a strange mixture of harmless surface and murky depths. one is not quite sure which of the two is more important and whether it would be worse if the music stopped or if it went on forever. other people who manage something like this are coil and angelo badalamenti. (7) boards of canada: box maxma it's a shame we can't pick demos. the best new electronic music is to be found on demos today. since the interest of the mainstream has shifted to drum'n'bass things have been getting better again. the kids don't hope to get signed and do whatever they feel like doing. but this track here isn't bad either. (8) stock hausen & walkman: organ transplant the master thieves. they, too, manage to combine parts in way which seems totally impossible but feels inevitable at the same time. and they steal from musicians who stole from other musicians who died in poverty. (9) just-ice: cold getting dumb a mantronix production. of course the rap also works as rap, but you've got to listen to the way he chops the rhythm track to shreds and weaves it together with the rap. the words become machine. (10) 808 state: flow coma probably the best track in this list. shits on everything else, from a great height. "Every fart has some kind of smell, and we cannot say that all Soviet farts smell sweet." - Mao Tse-tung to the Supreme Soviet, 1956