Re: (313) a few reviews

From cognition
Sent Wed, Mar 22nd 2000, 04:28

bill, there was supposed to be a csm 3 featuring
tobler, but i don't think it ever happened. andrew duke

William VanLoo wrote:

> Well, I hit Record Time last night and came away with a couple of
> gems.
>
> .CSM-2 by Kevin Tobler (CSM): Is this Serotonin sublabel still
> running? I haven't been able to find out much information, but I
> really love one of the tracks on this. It has that ultra-tight
> percussion sound that some of the Cologne material uses.
>
> http://www.serotoninusa.com/csmdiscog.htm
>
> .1-3 by Erosion (Chain Reaction): I think this is Various Artists
> a/k/a Thorsten Profrock, but I'm not sure. It's got the sort of
> "sheets of sound" that I associate with his style. I picked this up to
> fill some of the holes in my Chain Reaction back catalog.
>
> http://home.snafu.de/circonium/music/cr.html
>
> ."system medley" by snd (City Centre Offices): This is a very nice
> piece of work by snd. I didn't care much for their full-length
> "makesndcassette", because it was just too much of the same thing.
> They didn't change their sonic palette on the album, making for a very
> long excursion and ultimately it was just too samey for my tastes. I
> love the snd "newtables" 12" I have, though, so I think the key to
> listening to their material is having it in small doses.
> This 7", on Thaddi Hermann's City Centre Offices label, is the perfect
> small dose. "System Medley", the one track, uses basically the same
> palette of pitched percussion sounds as the other snd material, but
> breaks down into a nice stuck-groove sounding loop about 2/3 of the
> way through, which then resolves nicely. The other side features
> locked grooves, which would work perfectly with some of the fuzzy
> beatless ambient material
>
> http://www.city-centre-offices.de/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill / dj marathon
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