From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Sun, Feb 15th 1998, 21:35
From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Sun, Feb 15th 1998, 21:35
> > animals on wheels: designs and mistakes > didn't buy it from the store, listened to it tho. not too great.. the > first few tracks were the most interesting.. the guys job with breakbeats > is quite nice sometimes but he gets all disjointed, loses the beat, and > unlike squarepusher who does this same thing, he never makes the beat > recover. drums sounds were pretty much the same.. on some tracks he > would turn distortion on heavy. accompanying sounds were usually a loop > of something cool but it played over and over. don't recommend, but the > guy has talent. i like his mix on the ussr reconst. a lot > hey -- I like AOW for precisely this reason! Every track starts very innocously, until very subtly the beats get more distorted, sounds like machines continually speeding up + breaking down. With recent Squarepusher, even the frenzied stuff on Big Loada you don't get anywhere near the sense of catastrophe. It takes a few listens to realize AOW has an entirely different rationale, simultaneously more subtle, anti-musical and disturbing. Although I was underwhelmed at first this one *really* grew on me! So who else does stuff strictly in this vein? Have any of the other bovinyl artists made it to CD? I heard of a compilation called "spunk jazz" but I have yet to see it anywhere (reviews anyone?) --Harvey