From robert.merlak Sent Mon, Jun 15th 1998, 00:27
>Luke Vibert - Big Soup - Like, what's the big deal? Rather pedestrian hip >hop beats overlaid with poorly pitched samples - even Puff Daddy could do >a better job of being musical. The first 2 tracks are so atonal as to be >unlistenable, & 7 is pretty bad. This album is interesting to compare to >Spaghettification - they're similar in concept, vastly different in >implementation. If Marc Royal's drug is acid, Vibert's is definately >ganja. Me? I prefer that electric edge. I finally found a person on IDM with tastes completely opposite than mine... that's brilliant. I must say that Luke Vibert's Big Soup was definitely one of the best albums for 1997., and that 'Throbbing Pouch' album by Wagon Christ is my top 10 album of all time. I also think that Luke Vibert and Squarepusher ('Feed Me Wierd Things' was my best album for 1996.) are the best IDM artists for most recent period (95, 96, 97) and that their importance is equal as i.e. theirs : AFX, Ae, BD, early u-Ziq, . . . I am very busy at the monet and really don't have time for writing review of Big Soup, but I just want to say one more thing : IDM is great place and everything IMO ofcourse... bye rob 'Oh Lydia, oh Lydia' 'Oh Lydia, the tattooed lady...'