From david turgeon Sent Fri, May 14th 1999, 18:56
> i think my point is that a lot of great music is coming out that skam has > nothing to do with, and yet people continue to limit themselves to the > known. considering skam's recent ouput, i can only guess at their > motivation for doing so...let me put my money where my mouth is, though. > these are some of the releases that i think skam people would be very > interested in if they weren't so concerned about labels: > > -- Funckarma, Funckarma EP (Djak-Up-Bitch) > -- Duplex, Duplex EP (Djak-Up-Bitch) > -- EOG, EOG EP (Djak-Up-Bitch) > -- Various Artists, Connecting Electro-nix Networks (Nature) > -- O.S.T., Fashion for Passion (Dial) > -- To Rococo Rot + D, s/t (Soul Static Sound) > -- Lowfish, Fear Not the Snow... (Suction) > -- Nobukazu Takemura, Meteor (Thrill Jockey) > -- Arovane, Icol Diston (Din) of all these, i've only ever seen 4 in stores (i own 2 of those). skam releases, however, are easily available around here. i found the jega-ska009 at a few places. same for the push button objects which i gave a listen to only to nevermind it -- which is what i should have done with ska009. i guess like many i was drawn to this label mostly because of boards of canada, but i didn't like anything else that they put out, except the 0161 comp, which is with v/vm anyway so it doesn't count. anyway, i disgress. my point is that i've wanted to buy the o.s.t. record for a while but it's impossible to find around here. i've never ever seen an arovane record although i've heard the name dropped quite a few times. i have no clue who djak-up-bitch are. so, i'd have to agree with you about skam; hell, they _are_ called SKAM for god's sake. (& i'm not even attempting to guess what music aus strom _really_ means!) this is purely subjective content, please don't scream at me. i just tend to be indifferent to that music although i can understand its appeal, but to be honest, autechre seem like such forward-looking musicians it baffles me that the music they endorse is so tame & unchallenging. or maybe they don't really have that much say in who gets signed. what do i know. -- david turgeon at http://www.notype.com