From laerm Sent Tue, Aug 25th 1998, 20:19
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, eric wrote: > > compare more to skam & musik aus strom than > > warp & rephlex but they're all good nonetheless. > > is this to mean that they're of the "la la la" delicate melodies over > crunchy beats style? no - markant has talent. seriously - i find his chord progressions and arrangements extremely moving, with no dippy melodies a la rdj, mike p, dmx. nothing rephlex has ever really done has ever really done anything for me (except squarepusher and seefeel). markant, however, combines the moving chord progressions and string usage of old-skool detroit and older autechre, with some vaguely hip-hoppish beats found on the mancunian labels, with the sense of space and depth found on CR/BC/M records. einstuerzende neubauten "NNNAAAMMM" * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com #### a fortune cookie i ate 08/06/98 told me: "a girlfriend is a wine bottle. a wife is a bottle of wine."