From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 00:30
From Harvey Devoe Thornburg Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 00:30
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> I think it was the green one and the silver one that I thought stood out,
> as I jogged through them all in a shop. I guess I recommend those if
> someone was buying them without hearing them first... They were a little
> too straightforward for me, as I like the minimal records that sound like
> shuffling frog-croaking-noise or "gravel house", as I've started calling
> it. That is where the miminal tracks sound like a cardboard box of gravel
> being shaken in a shuffle like a cabasa. ...maybe a noisey toad or
> belching whoopie cushion in there too... This is what I like about a few
> of the abstract Profan 12"s ("Diskoschlafen 2000"?)
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What relation do the Profan 12" have to their CD's? I only have the
"purple" and "green" CD's and they are both excellent, not anything I
would call straightforward. The "purple" CD is the Studio 1 Variations
by Thomas Brinkmann (great introduction to his work, although a bit
simpler in a way when compared to the "Totes Rennen" CD), and the
"green" is the M:I:5 CD, also excellent, built out of sampled loops
which layer and drift out of sync, kind of a "heavier" version of
Brinkmann's approach minus the vinyl clicks). This stuff is experimental
and loopy, not at all danceable. Maybe this is the "gravel house" you
are talking about? Whatever it is I'm definitely looking for more
from Profan, should I just buy random 12's or are there specific ones
to get?
--Harvey