addntox, stereolab, sturm, etc. was: (idm) orange

From david turgeon
Sent Fri, May 21st 1999, 14:51

> >you'll think i'm crazy, but this is exactly what made me not buy the
> >first add n to x album.  "ahhh...  this looks allright, the cover is
> >nice...  i hear they're pretty noisy...  cool...  aaaaartghhgghhg,
> >picture on the back cover!!!@#!  & they look so alt.something...  nah,
> >not buying it."
> not the noise you might be looking for, though i would recommend it to
> you. you like stereolab if i recall correctly? well, take stereolab and
> fuck them up bigtime a you'se got addntox.

ahhh, they better be fucked up big time, i have a hard time standing
stereolab anymore.  maybe i should sell my discography.  i think i got
caught into buying their records after listening to emperor tomato
ketchup which i still think is brilliant, but haven't found anything
remotely as good except maybe transient random noise blah & space age
ba(t)chelor pad music.  anyone up for a trade?  :)

> actually, i bought it today, and am listening to it now! incredible
> coincidence! i was hesitant at first to get it as well becuase there
> were 3 people in the group, making it a "band" as opposed the to lonely
> guy in his bedroom studio that i can relate to so well. i wasn't
> dissappointed when i finally got it.

they look too genx/mtv-friendly on the back cover of "on the wires of
our nerves" (or something like that).  i would relate more to a bunch of
keyboard smashing punks perhaps.

> np: (well addntox is done now and i'm on to): STURM (wolfgang voigt's
> brother) - (no idea what this album is called)

another thing i've heard at a listening station that i didn't bother
with.  it seemed to have nice sounds though.

someone has to come up with a "make your own 10 minute minimal techno
song in 5 minutes" cd-rom.  you just feed it dub samples & you turn up
the bass really high.

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