From Martin Sent Mon, Feb 16th 1998, 15:06
From Martin Sent Mon, Feb 16th 1998, 15:06
harvey wrote: >>> > > animals on wheels: designs and mistakes > didn't buy it from the store, listened to it tho. not too great.. the > first few tracks were the most interesting.. the guys job with breakbeats > is quite nice sometimes but he gets all disjointed, loses the beat, and > unlike squarepusher who does this same thing, he never makes the beat > recover. drums sounds were pretty much the same.. on some tracks he > would turn distortion on heavy. accompanying sounds were usually a loop > of something cool but it played over and over. don't recommend, but the > guy has talent. i like his mix on the ussr reconst. a lot > hey -- I like AOW for precisely this reason! Every track starts very innocously, until very subtly the beats get more distorted, sounds like machines continually speeding up + breaking down. With recent Squarepusher, even the frenzied stuff on Big Loada you don't get anywhere near the sense of catastrophe. It takes a few listens to realize AOW has an entirely different rationale, simultaneously more subtle, anti-musical and disturbing. Although I was underwhelmed at first this one *really* grew on me! So who else does stuff strictly in this vein? Have any of the other bovinyl artists made it to CD? I heard of a compilation called "spunk jazz" but I have yet to see it anywhere (reviews anyone?) <<< yes the animals on wheels is a strange beast. a lot of smooth sounds and melodies at the top, which seems to put some people off, and bassy distortion and truly chaotic breaks, in a smash everything up and be damned, rather than complex jazz structure ala squarepusher. which can also put off everyone else. i myself like the mixture of the two, so its fine by me. "spunk jazz" (on ill) is a fine release well worth checking out, get the cd as aow have 2 tracks on that versh, one is missing from the vinyl, though the cd-only trak "f.y.a" has had a couple of good slaggings on the list, and will probably drive you mad at first. a kind of harder, darker and more violent cd which has had me in mind of "spunk jazz", is "industrialsamplecoregouchebeat" by trash (various no future) which is just out and pretty easily available on mille plateaux. vinylwise, "avit" 12" by spymania allstars on spymania, is a must. and i cannot begin to do justice to the madness that is "the death of cool pt 1" 2lp on noodles. groovy jazz, distorto techno played by flipper, stomping righteous floor shakers, mad scratching, clicky percussion, beautiful simple ambience, dub country+western and cola fuelled belching are all present and more. and 4 lock grooves, including the belching. pt 2 is being compiled and i can't wait. i already posted a full long review of "spunk jazz" so i'll fwd that off-list. oh and paddington breaks "smart but casual" 12" on ill should have a proper release today (according to an advert in jockey slut). i hear this is excellent too. -martin