From Lance C McGannon Sent Tue, Oct 14th 1997, 19:50
From Lance C McGannon Sent Tue, Oct 14th 1997, 19:50
At 09:27 AM 10/14/97 +0100, you wrote: >>From: Joe Rice <xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> >>Subject: Re: (idm) IDM suggestions >> >>At 4:16 AM -0000 10/13/97, A. Mukerjee wrote: >> >>>For someone like me that likes intelligent music that Retains harmony and >>>alot of synth pads, what would you all recommend? >> >>Rei Harakami on Sublime comes to mind as well. > >Oooh yes. I got that six-track EP a while back and it's extremely good. >Slow, analogue percussion (blip, ping, tssh) and gorgeous warm bass'n'chord >combos. Like Morgan Geist crossed with Austin Bascom. Thumbs up. > I totally agree with Joe and Simon about the Rei Harakami 12" on Sublime. It's an essential release as are most of the Sublime releases. > >>they are, unfortunately, quite hard to get hold of and have been released on >>vinyl only. but, i've got to stress, they are most definitely worth the >>effort. > >Being a lucky bastard, I was able to pick up LM01 and LM02 recently at a >record fair. That was the first time I'd seen them - anyone know now many >copies were pressed of each? > I'm the proud owner of all four Likemind 12"s but it took several years to find them. As for how many were pressed, i don't know the exact number but i do know that whatever the number was it wasn't enough. >I was also lucky enough to pick up Stasis' _Circuit Funk_ on Peacefrog, >Stasis' _Point of No Return_ on B12 and a Cemtric 12" on B12. Total OD on >smooth UK techno. > You can't go wrong with early Stasis or B12 label material. B12 is another label that needs to release their 12"s in greater numbers and repress their entire back catalog. > >I was ever-so slightly disappointed by it but solid is the word - one or >two very 12" co-written with IVM (on IVM's Tenth Planet label) is probably >the best example of their sound. In a Derrick May/early Carl Craig vein but >again with that noticeably UK listening-oriented take on the Detroit sound. >A similar release is the Jaime Read 3xLP on Fragmented which is just out now. > I really enjoy the recent IVM CD but i still believe that Insync has yet to do a track better than his Irdial track called The Storm. BTW: Are the Tenth Planet 12"s still in print? I'd love to get ahld of all of them.