Re: (idm) neotropic, formerly some blather about AE

From Andrew Hime
Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 21:53

> > i read somewhere that there's some connection between neotropic and FSOL,
> > which kind of makes sense...the same ability to drift from ambient to hard
> > beats and back, even within one track, is there.  however, "mr brubaker's"
> > totally blows away "dead cities" (the closest FSOL analogue i can think
> > of) in my opinion.  
> 
> Well, the connection isn't that strong. She was haning around at the 
> FSOL's studio when they did Accelerator and helped them with some 
> samples. And/Or she sung on Papua New Guinea (I don't knoe this exactli 
> 'caause I wasn't able to track down a copy of either of this releases).
> 
> FSOL did also use a sample of Riz' old band Shrine on Dead Cities.

Didn't she also date one of the two FSOL guys for a while?