(idm) Artefacts & Noto

From Greg Clow
Sent Fri, Sep 24th 1999, 18:51

Got a nifty little brown-paper-and-twine wrapped package in the mail
yesterday with lots of odd, foreign things stuck to it. Ended up being a
copy of the "Artefacts" compilation on the Russian Art-Tek label that a
couple of people posted about last week. This is a damn fine disc, folks!
Has tracks from a couple of people you've probably heard of (Fizzarum,
Solar X) and lot of people you haven't, ranging from lovely melodic
electronica/IDM to post-Autechre crunchy-bits to goofy breaks to swirling
experimental burblings. Here's hoping they get some North American distro
lined-up soon!

Also got the September edition of the 20' to 2000 series, this one by
Noton labelhead Noto. It's good, albeit a little samey - 20 minutes of
pops and clicks and things like that. It's the sort of thing you'd like if
you like this sort of thing, which I do, so I do. 


Greg