From Bob Bannister Sent Wed, Jan 6th 1999, 15:50
From Bob Bannister Sent Wed, Jan 6th 1999, 15:50
<Stockwell steppas was not a proper album. It is listed as a single and I think most of the tracks were from a radio show. > I saw it listed as a single on some Web discography but figured that was a mistake - it has 9 tracks and is 67 minutes long. No indication in the credits on the CD of when or how it was recorded - if it were essentially live and improvised, I might rate it a notch higher, which is no doubt fodder for an extended disputatum. <The new release is very good. I am not sure if I would classify it as house or techno.> No, but nor, as someone mentioned, is that entirely right for Pole - and I'd hardly call "Music is Rotted One Note" drum & bass - bickering about categories is admittedly wearying and never-ending. As for "label of the year" or "artist of the year" for that matter - I can see why these are separate categories but when an entry in either fails to be responsible for *any* of the best records of the year, you start to wonder what they're famous for, other than being famous. Also although I said I was "I was pleased to have heard most of the top items by the end of the year", I agree with Rob Lim that I would have liked the poll results to serve for me more as push in the direction of stuff I didn't already know about. I am among the (easily half the list) group of non-voters for whom, I suspect, the process of playing catchup precludes confident voting - Plug Research was my label of the year, in part because I got most of their '97 releases in '98 (speaking of which, Shadow Huntaz is the first thing of theirs I haven't much liked). >Low Res - Anuck (Sublime) >Picked it up on white label... probably rather old, but has a few >tasty remixes by Juan Atkins.> Does this overlap with "Amuk" Metroplex (M027) w/ 4 (excellent!) tracks, dated 1996? - couldn't be more different from "Approximate Love Boat". >> Allen "Mannequin Lung" Avanessian >Interesting name : does anybody know his background?> That surname is almost certainly Armenian. Bob