From martin burbridge Sent Thu, Jul 15th 1999, 19:23
From martin burbridge Sent Thu, Jul 15th 1999, 19:23
> Looking for surreal mood, beauty, surprise, the ability to withstand > repeated listenings and frisbee tests, fine cover art, and beats to > die for. > Bjork without Bjork, so to speak. > > Looking for music in the vein of Red Snapper, Ghittoni, Moodorama, > Nano-head, Anthea, William Orbit, and so on. Vox are fine, if in the > right mood. > > Speaking of Red Snapper, "Prince Blimey" was never released U.S. > domestic, was it? > Not to be find anywhere at a reasonable price. > > ...and while I'm complaining, what's with the rappers on the > "Making Bones"? > If I wanted rappers, I would have bought - well, no I wouldn't have. i was bitterly disappointed w/ red snapper's "making bones" - not only does it have not that great rapping, but the music therein sounds more like "reeled and skinned". have they forgotten making the mighty "... blimey". if its not too uptempo to be tr*p-h*p the new live human on fat cat "monostereosis: ..." takes the live stand up bass and drums of prime red snapper, and replaces everything else w/ wicked scratching. great cover art too, but not really soporific enough for the traditional tr*p-h*p tag. no vox. and no, everything bar "making bones" is import to the us i think, not too sure of the "bones" singles. actually the "bogeyman" single w/ the david holmes and two tls mixes, is actually the shit. high vocal content try "mezzanine". low vocal content k&d's "dj kicks". in between, the herbalizer. can't decide between downtempo and uptempo? ninjas "cold krush cuts" (?title?) w/ dj krush taking care of the head nodding, and coldcut concentrating on the mind scrambling is rather nice. the transient waves single on fat cat (again w/ two tls mixes) sounds like tricky gone early acr, instead of up his own arse. anyone know what the rest of/ new fat cat full length by them is like? the track on the "across uneven terrain" veers a bit too close to heroindie to be purely blissful. > Babbling, babylon, -martin