From Greg Clow Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 15:36
From Greg Clow Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 15:36
Just had to share this laff-riot Pole review that appears in this week's Now Magazine (Toronto's version of The Village Voice, basically). The guy who wrote it - Tim Perlich - is basically a jaded hack (like most professional rock-crits, I guess), so this is exactly the sort of thing I'd expect him to write: POLE CD 1 and CD 2 (Matador) Rating: N The intriguing thing about Pole is not that Stefan Betke was able to create two distinctly monotonous recordings by trying to control the crackle of a busted Waldorf filter. Hey, if you had a day job at a mastering plant listening to terrible German techno for subtle variations in sonic frequency, errant bits of radio static would probably seem like an exotic treat worth preserving to you, too. No, the real entertainment here is knowing that there are people who will take at face value the effusive critical praise bestowed upon Pole by jaded Brit music hacks and actually believe Betke's time-wasting foolery is the future of dub. Better still, Betke's figured out a way to have people pay to watch him coax some sputters out of his little filter set-up. Pole will join Neotropic at Mockingbird Saturday (May 29).