Re: (idm) monolake & c.

From Tomas Jirku
Sent Sat, Jun 5th 1999, 23:49

>ain't nothin' a higher threshold of boredom couldn't fix...  you'll know 
>you've received enlightenment from the boddhisattva of minimalism when 
>you're waiting to make a left turn and you think "jesus, this turn signal... 
>it's _amazing_."

speak of: when i'm at work with big, noisy machines i hear the nicest
rhythms. the way my earplugs muffle everything is a nice effect. i'm
bringing my laptop for sampling next time fer-sher.

>GET IT.  if you can't find it, have someone tape it for you.  "8" has to be 
>one of the most..it's just...so...i mean...  it makes me drool.  "8.5" and 
>"9" are cool, but "8" just kills me.  it's like tantric sex with two 70s 
>yamaha home organs inside lee perry's echo chamber - the one that was in the 
>studio he burned down.  it and the remixes of it are in my top 10 for the 
>decade.

the monolake mix, with it's massive tidalwave of sound, does it. but the
rest ('specially the pole) leaves me wanting more (or less??). i'm still
in need of the original version.
One mnml CR/BC track that makes me believe in a higher power is the
unreleased edit of M7 on the Maurizio comp (track 7). its distant syth
pulses are so incredible. of course when i try to point this out to my
friends they think i'm mental. oooh, listening to it now i just
discovered a delay on the hihat. beautiful.

>am i the only person who notices a distinct difference between the mike ink 
>stuff (very synthetic, very tight with little variation) and the more chain 
>reaction/brinkmann/concept one school of things?  even brinkmann himself had 
>a hard time rendering the _studio 1_ material any more interesting, IMO.

i'm there with ya. even gas isn't as organic as CR stuff. STURM is
closer.

>ObMinTechnoBriefMentionBySnobbyBastard: the cog/polmo polpo split on audi 
>sensa is REALLY fucking good.  the cog side being a bit more experimental, 
>with some keen use of organic textures, while polmo polpo tries to convince 
>you they're not FROM berlin, they just lived there a while when their pop 
>as in the army...

polmo side is awsome, cog side is nice but not dense enough (since he
only used a sampler for his material).

on the mnml tip: Concept 1 by r.hawtin was a nice treat. anyone hear his
new "Orange" record? whats it like?

tomas
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