(idm) Re: I.A.M.

From multsanta
Sent Sun, Jul 12th 1998, 00:10

"Noah" <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> writes:
>>so, anyone out there got some good suggestions for "intelligent
>>aggressive music"?  i know most of the basics but would appreciate 
>any
>>I.A.M. suggestions.  either beat oriented or not, vocal or not, it's 
>all
>>good to me.
>
>Try out Mr. Bungle's first album, it's self titled and has a picture 
>of a weird clown on it. It's not by any stretch of the imagination 
>technoish, but it's pretty complex and ..uh, intelligent.
>
>That is, if your definition of intelligent includes needing to be 
>listenedto in it's entirety 3 or 4 times to appreciate the genius.
Because it 
>does.(the album, i mean)
>
>And if you like that, buy the second album, Disco Volante.. without a 
>doubt one of my all time fav's of any genre, ever..
>
>any other bungle fans here?

yeah, i'm a huge bungle fan.
The first album is some kinda weird blend between carnival music with
dashings of funk, metal, hip hop and ska, produced by john zorn, over odd
samples and reaaallly wacked out vocal content. The humor is dirty and
dark.  Like on 'girls of porn' where patton breaks into the rhymes ala
the classic Sugar Hill Gang v. Furious 5 track 'Showdown', except instead
of saying stuff like 'we got -uh- grandmaster dj flash', he says things
like 'we got gushing gonads and tingling tushes'...

And 'disco volante' is just amazing.  Dark, Dark, Dark and evil, yet with
a twist of black humor, too. Really confusing funk / jazz / noise / dark
ambient and weird vocals in foreign languages. Defying all
catagorization.. It takes a while to get into at first, but it'll grow on
you.

Also worth mentioning is the Secret Chiefs3, which is the other three
bungle guys minus patton. They have two cds out on Amarillo, 'First grand
constitution and bylaws' and 'second grand...', respectivly.  The later
just came out and i've yet to hear it. The former is on an arabian sort
of tip and though it lacks the charisma of Patton, it's still a pretty
good release, and worth checking out if you're a bungle fan.

as for faith no more, i've never really been able to get into any of
their stuff, at least what i've heard of it.

sorry for the lack of idm content.
back to topic now- was anyone else a little dissapointed with the new
potuznik CD on mego? i mean it is a very solid minimal(sortof, not really
in the basic channel way) techno release on its own, but it's just not
_mego_ enough for me, it lacks that sort of wacky mego clicky noisey shit
that we know and love oh well... maybe it'll grow on me

np-potuznik: amore molore [...autobahn] (Mego)
later/mlt/