Re: (idm) (QuikReview) Atom Heart: Dropshadow Disease

From Andrew Hime
Sent Fri, Oct 30th 1998, 23:37

> Rather Interesting RI 049 CD
> 
> I'll be brief as the subject line suggests:
> 
> Atom Heart has put together a (conceptual?) CD based on computing and 
> everything digital.  With songtitles like Ping Pong (True Type,) KPT 
> v. 1.0, Cut 'N' Paste, and Dingbats, the music is heavily sampled, 
> sharply digital at times, quite lighthearted, laden with intentional 
> distortion/lo-fi, and lite drill-n-bass-ish.  Lighthearted like MOM, 
> and lo-fi drill n bassish like Andrew Lagowski meets Yello and Mike 
> Paradinas.  Fotienda is a sort of digital samba that starts out nice 
> but drags on a bit later.  KPT v. 1.0 is a lush ambient number with 
> an a touch of the Orb sound.  KPT v 1.1 is the most straight ahead d-
> n-b of the CD with a great distorto lo-fi digital sound.  Cut N Paste 

Sounds pretty cool, but I've noticed the tendency in music produced by
people on their computers that it just sounds flat. No real bass response,
no real high tones. It's kind of a bland band in the middle. Does this
fall victim?

> is just that (d'oh!) The CD ends with the "bonus track" consisting of 
> a computer voice singing the words "Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer 
> Do...I'm half-crazy..."  [As a kid way back when (hey Jeff K!) I had 

Jeff K as in the radio DJ?

> Halloween is not very much fun anymore.

Says you, I've got three parties to do this weekend, one of which is going
to have a live PA by an artist on my label. FUN FUN FUN!